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... age.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.39
His income is good, he has a
fine home, is happily married and the father of promising children of college age.
2.
... age?
12&12
Step Twelve, p.121
How could we ever take care of those awful debts, possess a decent home, educate the kids, and set something by for old age?
3.
... age --
among them, many in their teens.
BB
Foreword to Third Edition, p.xxii
Seven percent of the A.A.'s surveyed are less than 30 years of age -- among them, many in their teens.
4.
... age characterized
by the ease with which ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.52
Is not our age characterized by the ease
with which we discard old ideas for new, by the complete readiness with
which we throw away the theory or gadget which does not
work for something new which does?
5.
... age, gender,
race, and culture -- have widened ...
BB
Foreword to Fourth Edition, p.xxiii
The stories added to this edition represent a membership whose characteristics -- of age, gender, race, and culture -- have widened and have deepened to
encompass virtually everyone the first 100 members could have hoped to reach.
6.
... age of
fifty-five, after a successful and ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.32
An exceptional man, he remained bone dry for twenty-five years and retired at the age of fifty-five, after a successful and happy business career.
7.
... age of
miracles is still with us.
BB
A Vision For You, p.153
8.
... age-old, baffling
malady, alcoholism.
12&12
Foreword, p.15
Alcoholics Anonymous
is a worldwide fellowship of more than one hundred thousand(*) alcoholic men and women who are banded together to solve their common problems and to help fellow sufferers in recovery from that age-old, baffling malady, alcoholism.
9.
... age-old perplexities,
but our own experience does ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.117
We A.A.'s cannot pretend to offer full answers to age-old perplexities, but our own experience does provide certain answers that work for us.
10.
... age-old public
health and social problem, alcoholism ...
BB
Appendix IV, The Lasker Award, p.571
"The American Public Health Association presents a Lasker Group Award for 1951 to Alcoholics Anonymous in recognition of its unique and highly successful approach to
that age-old public health and social problem, alcoholism ... In emphasizing alcoholism
as an illness, the social
stigma associated with
this condition is being blotted out ... Historians may one day recognize Alcoholics Anonymous to
have been a great venture in
social pioneering which
forged a new instrument for social action; a new therapy based on the kinship of common suffering; one having a vast potential for the myriad other ills of mankind."
11.
... age-old riddle
of alcoholism, He can solve ...
BB
To Wives, p.116
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