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

desk
despair
despaired
DESPAIRING   occurs   5 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
desperate
desperately
desperation

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1.
... despairing alcoholics as they could.   12&12 p.186, Tradition Twelve
The A.A. groups would have to reach quickly as many despairing alcoholics as they could.


2.
... despairing appeal: "Doctor, I cannot go on ...   BB xxix(xxvii), The Doctor's Opinion   Display entire Doctor's Opinion
Men have cried out to me in sincere and despairing appeal: "Doctor, I cannot go on like this!


3.
... despairing, nervous wreck, had emerged a man ...   BB xxxi(xxix), The Doctor's Opinion   Display entire Doctor's Opinion
From a trembling, despairing, nervous wreck, had emerged a man brimming over with self-reliance and contentment.


4.
... despairing wife was informed that it would ...   BB p.7, Bill's Story   Go to page 7 in the Big Book
My weary and despairing wife was informed that it would all end with heart failure during delirium tremens, or I would develop a wet brain, perhaps within a year.


5.
... despairing wives, the little children; let the ...   BB xxviii(xxvi), The Doctor's Opinion   Display entire Doctor's Opinion
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted and encouraged this movement.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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