From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
FACED occurs
8 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... faced another
trip to the asylum if ...
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
He
knew he
faced another
trip to the
asylum if he
kept on.
2.
... faced my
sins and became willing to ...
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
I
ruthlessly faced my
sins and
became willing to have my new-
found
Friend take them away,
root
and
branch.
3.
... faced us
and our families.
BB p.106,
To Wives
We finally
sought employment ourselves as
destitution faced us and
our
families.
4.
... faced was
this: Could these large numbers ...
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
5.
Faced with
alcoholic destruction, we soon became ...
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
6.
... faced with
physical and mental readjustment to ...
BB p.146,
To Employers
Being somewhat
weakened, and
faced with
physical and
mental readjustment to
a
life which
knows no
alcohol, he may
overdo.
7.
... faced with
something really impossible.
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
But now, still
smarting from that
admission, he is
faced with
something really
impossible.
8.
Faced with
this problem, if a doctor ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
Faced with this
problem, if
a
doctor is
honest with
himself, he
must sometimes
feel his
own inadequacy.
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