After the section had gone to press, terms of the contest changed.
There were countless pithy columns, too, for Punch, The Spectator, New Statesman and The Oldie, yet in press terms The Guardian was his spiritual home.
In a move akin – in UK trade press terms – to Anna Wintour leaving Vogue, Beale, who has edited the title for eight years and has worked for the title since the mid-1990s, is moving to stablemate Marketing in the new role of brand editor.
Its marchers chant "Lügenpresse" ("lying press"), a term once used by the Nazis.
True permanent press — the term properly describes cloth that is a blend of cotton and synthetic fibers — was invented in the mid-20th century, but for textile makers, a no-iron, 100-percent cotton fabric was a long-sought grail.
And if it's good enough for the chefs... Food science boffin (as the popular press would term him) and general genius Harold McGee reckons there are two secrets to successful steak cookery: "warm meat and frequent flips".
After explaining that he had not been able to talk to the press last term because he was too busy with his homework, Tielemans continued: "The two little dips in form that I endured – one last season and then again in the early part of this season – have helped me grow up.
I thought a great deal about that last week when a story I had worked on for months, on and off — about the leadership of the Tribune Company — went to press, a term that is not a metaphor, but a daily exercise here at The Times.
What Pegida stands for is hard to ascertain, especially if you ask Pegida, largely because demonstrators have been urged not to talk to what they call the "Lügenpresse", or liar press (a term of condemnation also used by the Nazis, by the way), and its organisers rarely give interviews.
In the general press, the term GRID, which stood for gay-related immune deficiency, had been coined.
