"bury the lede"

[Gregory McNamee]

Lede dates well before 1976, as does my journalistic training. I'll
try to dig up antedating material.

Strictly, the lede/lead distinction is to set apart not the metal
itself but the space between lines of type, which is called leading
(pronounced "ledd-ing").

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