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

drunk
drunkards
drunkenness
DRUNKS   occurs   12 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... drunks.   12&12 p.133, Tradition Two
Besides, look at all the good we've done these drunks.


2.
... drunks.   BB p.106, To Wives   Go to page 106 in the Big Book
In desperation, we have even got tight ourselves -- the drunk to end all drunks.

3.
... drunks and hand them currency for their ...   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.

4.
... drunks are getting well and making money.   12&12 p.136, Tradition Two
All around you these drunks are getting well and making money.

5.
... drunks by spirituality, I thought it was ...   12&12 p.136, Tradition Two
Three years ago, when my head doctor, Silkworth, began to tell me of the idea of helping drunks by spirituality, I thought it was crackpot stuff, but I've changed my mind.

6.
... drunks could ever get well on their ...   12&12 p.152, Tradition Five
I insisted that few drunks could ever get well on their own steam, but that in our groups we could do together what we could not do separately.

7.
... drunks looked hungrily on from the kitchen ...   12&12 p.137, Tradition Two
Arriving home, I found Lois cooking as usual, while three drunks looked hungrily on from the kitchen door.

8.
... drunks of yours will fill Madison Square ...   12&12 p.136, Tradition Two
Some day this bunch of ex-drunks of yours will fill Madison Square Garden, and I don't see why you should starve meanwhile.

9.
... drunks or was it an educational project?   12&12 p.156, Tradition Six
Did A.A. fix drunks or was it an educational project?

10.
... drunks who weren't paying board.   12&12 p.136, Tradition Two
I thought of Lois coming home exhausted from the department store each day, only to cook supper for a houseful of drunks who weren't paying board.

11.
... drunks who wouldn't even send the Foundation ...   12&12 p.162, Tradition Seven
I felt especially virtuous as I thought of all the ex-drunks who wouldn't even send the Foundation a dollar apiece, and here I was gladly making a five-dollar investment to fix a hangover.

12.
... drunks yearned for education, but doubted if ...   12&12 p.148, Tradition Four
It was found that some drunks yearned for education, but doubted if they were alcoholics.


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