From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
BURNING occurs
3 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... burning enthusiasm
with which he distributed automobile ...
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
2.
... burning issue
out of such a matter ...
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
She sees she was
wrong to make a
burning issue out of such a
matter when his more
serious
ailments were being
rapidly cured.
3.
... burning up
energy foolishly as we did ...
BB p.88,
Into Action
We do not
tire so
easily,
for we are not
burning up
energy foolishly as we did
when we were
trying to
arrange life to
suit ourselves.
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