Word: stoppelbein
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Charlotte, N.C., area one day last week, hundreds of happy tipplers crowded into restaurants to toast a hotly debated new state law allowing such places to serve drinks for the first time in 70 years. Hank Stoppelbein, 23, a part-time waiter who fired down the first shot (a $1.50 Bloody Mary) at Benedictine's Restaurant at 8:04 a.m., pronounced it not just an eye opener but "history, right there along with George Washington crossing the Delaware." Said the one-word banner headline on the Charlotte News front page: CHEERS...
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