From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... club couldn't
answer its telephone, but it ...
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
Even more important, an empty club couldn't answer its telephone, but it was an
open invitation to a drunk on a binge who possessed a spare key.
2.
... club; in
the second story they would ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
Beginning on the ground
floor there would be a club;
in the second story they
would sober up drunks and hand them currency for their back debts; the third deck would house an educational project --
quite noncontroversial, of course.
3.
... club is
going to function, it has ...
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
4.
... club janitor
and cook.
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
5.
... club members;
others started in the club, ...
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
Some would start at the top
and come through to the bottom, becoming club members; others started in the club, pitched a binge, were hospitalized, then graduated to education
on the third floor.
6.
... club-minded, but
it was just a question ...
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
7.
... club of
anger we had intended to ...
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
We had to see that when we harbored grudges and planned revenge for such defeats, we were really beating ourselves with the club of
anger we had intended to
use on others.
8.
... club over
your head.
BB p.108,
To Wives
9.
... club, pitched
a binge, were hospitalized, then ...
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
Some would start at the top
and come through to the bottom, becoming club members; others started in the club, pitched a binge, were hospitalized, then graduated to education
on the third floor.
10.
... club was.
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
11.
... club worse
than the distant alcoholics who ...
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
I who had boasted my generosity that morning
was treating my own club worse than the distant alcoholics who
had forgotten to send the
Foundation their dollars.
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