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Re:Headlinese by KineticLensman on Monday February 10, 2020 @02:13PM (#22292192)
My favourite example was "Foot heads arms body" which was allegedly created although not perhaps used by the Times when the UK politician Michael Foot was put in charge of a disarmament committee [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Foot

[Edit: emphasised the ambiguity picked up Confiks]

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Re:Headlinese by Confiks on Monday February 10, 2020 @02:56PM (#22292602)
However, Wikipedia suggests [1] (the primary source is unreachable for me) that "the headline does not, however, appear in The Times Digital Archive, which includes every day's newspaper from 1785 into the 21st century. It is found in a letter published in The Guardian in 1978. [2]"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Foot#In_popular_cultur...

[2] https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39001580/foot_heads_arms_bod...

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