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lib·er·a·tor

(lib'ĕr-ā-tŏr, -tōr),

An agent that stimulates or activates a physiologic chemical or an enzymatic action.

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Nearly 19,000 Liberators were built by Consolidated in San Diego and Fort Worth, Douglas in Tulsa, North American in Dallas, and--an amazing story in itself--Ford at Willow Run.

Consolidated B-24 Liberator: War paint Series No. 96

Alas, the country with a great history in burning now, thanks to the liberators.

So much for Iraq's liberation

As noted earlier, original Liberators are getting both pricey and hard to come by.

Re-liberated: with an original price of around $2, World War II's FP-45 Liberator embodied the term "bang for your buck." Now it been replicated in all its stamped sheet-steel glory

THE LIBERATOR MAGAZINE (not to be confused with the well-known abolitionist newpaper published by William Lloyd Garrison) was on the cutting edge of radical print culture in the 1960s.

"Harlem, New York! Harlem, Detroit! Harlem, Birmingham!" Liberator magazine and the chronicling of translocal activism

In the firefight a Liberator was shot down, but a depth charge from the Liberator G for George cracked and flooded the hull.

We still don't know where the U-534 was heading on her final voyage

Perhaps the most well-known of the Navy Liberator pilots was Lt Joseph P.

Liberators in England

As the group lead--the plane whose bomb drop would cue the other Liberators to unload their own bombs--the Missouri Belle carried a lead radar navigator, Second Lieutenant Bernard W.

Crash into the channel: wounded pilot Bob Vance's crippled B-24 was falling fast. But Vance believed a hurt man was aboard, so he stayed put and steered for water...

Biographies carried over from the first edition include those for Chilean liberator Bernardo O'Higgins, the two Brazilian emperors, Jose Marti of Cuba, and Mexico's Pancho Villa.

Liberators, patriots, and leaders of Latin America; 32 biographies, 2d ed

TOM LONG, a member of The Liberators, and a budding Rugby musician, takes up the story.

Liberating the way for Pinkerton's; Nostalgia RUGBY'S Liberators would forever be linked with being the source material that created chart stars Pinkerton's Colours. But before Pinkerton's it was The Liberators who were to dominate the East Warwickshire music-scene

We're liberators, says the president,/ignoring the disconnect.

As The World Burns

We both hate to admit we are wrong--especially after we've declared the mission accomplished and we're off to be greeted as liberators.

Three chances?

My interest is in tracing RAF Sgt James (Jimmy) Tumelty, from Newcastle, who was flying in Liberators when shot down on 21/22 August 1944 over Hungary.