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Tom Cruise, 2006 News

actor and producer, engaged in a very nasty and public parting of ways with his studio, Paramount Pictures. Sumner Redstone, the chairman of Paramount's parent company, Viacom, announced the…

Tom Brokaw, 2002 News

news anchor, in June announced plans to retire from NBC Nightly News after the 2004 presidential election. MSNBC anchor Brian Williams will assume the helm. Brokaw, who joined the show in…

Tom Chandler 2001 Deaths

Tom ChandlerAge: 76 longtime Texas A&M baseball coach and major league scout; won 660 games and five conference titles in 26 years with the Aggies; lost only World Series appearance in…

Tom Cheney 2001 Deaths

Tom CheneyAge: 67 Washington Senators pitcher who set the major league record with 21 strikeouts in a 16-inning game on Sept. 12, 1962. The cause of his death was not given.Died: Rome, Ga.,…

Tom DeLay, 2004 News

House majority leader, was rebuked three times in the course two weeks by the House Ethics Committee. He was criticized for pressuring another representative to vote in favor of the Medicare…

Tom DeLay, 2005 News

House majority leader, was indicted by a Texas grand jury in September. Missouri Representative Roy Blunt replaced him as House majority leader. The indictment accuses DeLay of conspiring…

Brewer's: Long Tom Coffin

A sailor of noble daring, in The Pilot, by Cooper. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Long WordsLong-tailed A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R…

Brewer's: Loud as Tom of Lincoln

The great church bell. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894LouisLoud Patterns A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z…