COOKS in Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous, 12 Steps and 12 Traditions

From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

conviviality

cook

cooking

COOKS occurs 2 times (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)

cool

cooperate

cooperates

... cooks spoil the broth. 12&12 p.156, Tradition Six

Whereupon we tried A.A. hospitals -- they all bogged down because you cannot put an A.A. group into business; too many busybody cooks spoil the broth.

... cooks who fried hamburgers, secretaries in offices, ... 12&12 p.167, Tradition Eight

Caretakers who swept floors, cooks who fried hamburgers, secretaries in offices, authors writing books -- all these we have seen hotly assailed because they were, as their critics angrily remarked, "making money out of A.A."

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