From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... days.
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
First off, they can be told
that the majority of A.A. members have suffered severely from self-justification during
their drinking days.
2.
... days.
12&12 p.139,
Tradition Three
3.
... days.
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
4.
... days.
12&12 p.182,
Tradition Eleven
With perfectly good intent, these folks declared that the principle of anonymity
was horse-and-buggy stuff, something appropriate to A.A.'s pioneering days.
5.
... days.
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
6.
... days.
BB p.41,
More About Alcoholism
7.
... days.
BB p.96,
Working With Others
8.
... days.
BB p.102,
Working With Others
9.
... days a
week.
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
We tried volunteers,
who were quickly disenchanted with sweeping floors and brewing coffee seven days a week.
10.
... days add
up into weeks, the weeks ...
BB p.570(572),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
11.
... days ago
at this writing (1939).
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
12.
... days before
he had hanged himself in ...
BB p.137,
To Employers
13.
... days got
dark enough.
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I used to put eight or twelve ounce bottles of alcohol in a fur lined glove and toss it onto the back airing porch when winter days got dark
enough.
14.
... days he
was depressed about his condition.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
15.
... days later,
a future fellow of Alcoholics ...
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
Two days later, a future fellow of Alcoholics Anonymous stared glassily at the strangers beside his bed.
16.
... days' meeting
of a national society of ...
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
This dry spell lasted for about three weeks; then I went to Atlantic City to attend several days' meeting of a national society of which
I was a member.
17.
... days of
convalescence, this will do more ...
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
During those first days of convalescence, this will
do more to insure his sobriety than anything else.
18.
... days of
heavy drinking.
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
19.
... days of
inferno, I wobbled from a ...
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
20.
... days of
our drinking we occasionally remained ...
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
In the early days of our drinking we occasionally remained
sober for a year or more, becoming serious drinkers again later.
21.
... days of
our Society appears in the ...
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
He had also been greatly helped by the late Dr. William D. Silkworth, a New York specialist in alcoholism who is now accounted no less than a medical saint by A.A. members, and whose story of the early days of our Society appears in the next pages.
22.
... days, so
drunk he could hardly speak.
BB p.136,
To Employers
Not long afterward he had
called me from Hartford
on two successive days, so drunk he could hardly speak.
23.
... days, the
moment an A.A. hired out ...
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
In former days, the moment an A.A. hired out to such enterprises, he was
immediately tempted
to use the name Alcoholics Anonymous
for publicity or money-raising purposes.
24.
... days, the
news came in.
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
25.
... days this
doctor suggests our approach to ...
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
26.
... days was
equal to the best of ...
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
Students of ancient history tell us that the intellect of men in those days was equal to the best of today.
27.
... days, we'd
go anywhere on a Twelfth ...
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
28.
... days, weeks,
or months, a fresh outburst.
BB p.105,
To Wives
29.
... days will
soon be back, they think.
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
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