From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... evening.
BB p.105,
To Wives
2.
... evening comes,
perhaps just before going to ...
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
When evening comes, perhaps just before going to sleep, many of us draw up a balance sheet for the day.
3.
... evening in
Washington.
BB p.41,
More About Alcoholism
4.
... evening passed
that someone's home did not ...
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
Seeing much of each other, scarce an evening passed that someone's home did not shelter a little gathering of men and women, happy in their release, and
constantly thinking
how they might present their discovery to some newcomer.
5.
... Evening Post
and placed such a compelling ...
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
Then Jack Alexander wrote a feature article in the Saturday
Evening Post and placed such a compelling picture of A.A. before the general public that alcoholics in need of help really deluged us.
6.
... Evening Post
piece broke in 1941, thousands ...
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
He explains that when Jack
Alexander's Saturday
Evening Post piece broke in 1941, thousands of frantic letters from distraught alcoholics
and their families hit the
Foundation(*) letterbox in New York.
7.
... Evening Post
piece made A.A. a national ...
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
8.
... evening prayer
meeting.
BB p.172,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
From childhood through
high school I was more or less forced to go to church, Sunday School and evening service, Monday night Christian Endeavor and sometimes
to Wednesday evening prayer meeting.
9.
... evening service,
Monday night Christian Endeavor and ...
BB p.172,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
From childhood through
high school I was more or less forced to go to church, Sunday School and evening service, Monday night Christian Endeavor and sometimes
to Wednesday evening prayer meeting.
10.
... evening to
meet a friend of hers ...
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
About this time a lady called up my wife one Saturday afternoon saying she wanted me to come over that evening to meet a friend of hers who might help me.
11.
... evening-up process
is now going on.
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
Alcohol being no respecter of persons, we are an accurate cross section of America, and in
distant lands, the same democratic evening-up process is now going on.
12.
... evening, which
in turn would mean a ...
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
This would lessen my chances of smuggling some
home that evening, which in turn would mean a night of futile tossing around in bed followed by a morning of unbearable jitters.
13.
... evening, you
can go on a mild ...
BB p.139,
To Employers
Of an evening, you can go on a
mild bender, get up in the morning, shake your head and go to business.
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