Missing Chechen Was Secret Bride of Terror Leader.
Wasting only two of its eight words on grammatical business, it stacks up not one, nor two, but three perfectly compelling noun-adjective pairs, perhaps the most insinuating hed ever for a story about which the readers are likely to have no prior knowledge.
Indeed, given that it could have run "Missing Chechen: Terror Leader's Secret Bride," the placement of the minimal verb and preposition seems designed exactly to point up the independent formulae, each in its crystalline irreducibility — an Int-News version of "Snakes on a Plane."
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