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... drunk.
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
2.
... drunk?"
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
3.
... drunk.
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
4.
... drunk.
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
5.
... drunk.
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
6.
... drunk?
BB p.70,
How It Works
7.
... drunk.
BB p.73,
Into Action
8.
... drunk.
BB p.110,
To Wives
9.
... drunk.
BB p.120,
To Wives
Perhaps your husband will make a fair start on the new basis, but just as things are going beautifully he dismays you by coming home drunk.
10.
... drunk.
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
He got drunk.
11.
... drunk.
BB p.146,
To Employers
12.
... drunk.
BB p.147,
To Employers
13.
... drunk again.
BB p.36,
More About Alcoholism
14.
... drunk again
immediately?
BB p.108,
To Wives
Why was it, when these dangers were pointed out that they agreed, and then
got drunk again immediately?
15.
... drunk again
to make more passions possible.
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
We have drunk to escape the
guilt of passions, and
then have drunk again to make more passions possible.
16.
... drunk all
over again.
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
17.
... drunk and
let their groups down with ...
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
18.
... drunk's dilemma.
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
19.
... drunk, don't
blame yourself.
BB p.120,
To Wives
20.
... drunk every
night, but in order to ...
BB p.177,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
My phobia for sleeplessness demanded that I get drunk every night, but in order to get more liquor for the next night, I had to stay sober during the day, at least up to four o'clock.
21.
... drunk farm
wanted a manager who could ...
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
22.
Drunk farms,
educational ventures, state legislatures, and ...
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
Drunk farms, educational ventures,
state legislatures,
and commissions advertised the fact that A.A. members served them.
23.
... drunk, feeling
ourselves justified by nervousness, anger, ...
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
In some circumstances we have gone out deliberately to get drunk, feeling ourselves justified by
nervousness, anger, worry, depression, jealousy or the like.
24.
... drunk --
for at the time, you see, ...
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
He browbeat everybody, and everybody expected that
he'd soon get drunk -- for at the time, you see, A.A. was on the pious side.
25.
... drunk for
vainglory -- that we might the ...
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
26.
... drunk gave
me!
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
27.
... drunk half
a dozen times in rapid ...
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
28.
... drunk has
a terrific hangover because he ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
29.
... 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.
30.
... drunk in
a short time.
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
31.
... drunk may
smash the furniture in your ...
BB p.97,
Working With Others
32.
... drunk, morning
jitters, taking large doses of ...
BB p.177,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
It was really a horrible
nightmare, this earning money, getting liquor, smuggling it home, getting drunk, morning jitters, taking large doses of sedatives to make it possible for me to earn more money, and so on ad nauseam.
33.
... drunk on
a binge who possessed a ...
12&12 p.168,
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.
34.
... drunk on
beer.
BB p.177,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
35.
... drunk on
the job, taking a trip, ...
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
Here are some of the methods we have tried: Drinking beer only, limiting the number of drinks, never drinking alone, never drinking in the morning, drinking only at
home, never having it in the
house, never drinking during business hours, drinking only at parties,
switching from scotch
to brandy, drinking only
natural wines, agreeing to resign if ever drunk on the job, taking a trip, not taking a trip, swearing off forever (with and without a
solemn oath), taking more physical exercise, reading inspirational
books, going to health farms and sanitariums, accepting voluntary commitment to asylums --
we could increase the list
ad infinitum.
36.
... drunk on
the way home from here.
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
37.
... drunk, or
was lured into using A.A.'s ...
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
If even one publicly got drunk, or was lured into using A.A.'s name for his own purposes, the damage might
be irreparable.
38.
... drunk, so
I began to fortify my ...
BB p.178,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
It then occurred to me that after one was all smelled up with beer nobody could tell what had been drunk, so I began to fortify my beer with straight alcohol.
39.
... drunk; that
the most majestic constructions of ...
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
We had long talks when I
would still her forebodings by telling
her that men of genius conceived their best projects when drunk; that the
most majestic constructions of philosophic thought
were so derived.
40.
... drunk the
day after making their resolutions; ...
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
41.
... drunk themselves
out of jobs, family, and ...
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
But all alcoholics who have drunk themselves out of jobs, family, and friends will need to cross-examine themselves ruthlessly
to determine how their own
personality defects
have thus demolished
their security.
42.
... drunk then.
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
As the whisky rose to my head I told myself I would manage better next time, but I might as well get good and drunk then.
43.
... drunk to
drown feelings of fear, frustration, ...
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
44.
... drunk to
end all drunks.
BB p.106,
To Wives
45.
... drunk to
escape the guilt of passions, ...
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
We have drunk to escape the
guilt of passions, and
then have drunk again to make more passions possible.
46.
... drunk to
think or write.
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
47.
... drunk to
work on.
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
48.
... drunk, unless
he is ugly and the ...
BB p.90,
Working With Others
49.
... drunk up
a good chunk of our ...
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
Suppose, for instance,
that we have drunk up a good chunk of our firm's money, whether by "borrowing" or
on a heavily padded expense account.
50.
... drunk who
complained about the job she ...
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
Then we saw that if a hardworking secretary
answered the phone dozens of times a day, listened to twenty wailing wives, arranged hospitalization and got
sponsorship for ten newcomers, and was gently
diplomatic with the irate drunk who complained about the job she
was doing and how she was overpaid, then such a person could surely not be called a professional
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