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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
FINE occurs
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1.
... fine.
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
From there on we got along fine.
2.
... fine.
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
3.
... fine.
BB p.41,
More About Alcoholism
4.
... fine a
specimen of manhood as one ...
BB xxxii(xxx),
The Doctor's Opinion
I see him now and then and he is as
fine a
specimen of
manhood as one
could
wish to
meet.
5.
... fine, and
to clinch the matter, the ...
BB p.138,
To Employers
He has just
returned from a
three-
months leave of
absence, has
taken a
cure,
looks fine, and to
clinch the
matter, the
board of
directors told him
this was his
last chance."
6.
... fine art.
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
We had made the
invention of
alibis a
fine art.
7.
... fine before
going to bed, so I ...
BB p.41,
More About Alcoholism
When I
returned to the
hotel it
struck me a
highball would be
fine before
going to
bed, so I
stepped into the
bar and had
one.
8.
... fine chance
to right a serious wrong.
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
Or we may just
procrastinate,
telling ourselves the
time is
not
yet, when in
reality we
have already
passed up many a
fine chance to
right a
serious wrong.
9.
... fine decimal
point.
BB p.149,
To Employers
10.
... fine doctors,
psychologists, and practitioners of various ...
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
11.
... fine home,
is happily married and the ...
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
12.
... fine-mesh fence
right around A.A.
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
We
built a
fine-
mesh fence right around
A.A.
13.
... fine on
a few of them.
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
We are doing fine on a few of them.
14.
... fine on
only two of them, the ...
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
Maybe we are doing
fine on only
two of them, the
First Step and that
part of the
Twelfth where we "
carry the
message."
15.
... fine results.
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
He
persistently tries
all of
A.A.'s
Twelve Steps in his
home, often with
fine results.
16.
... fine tribute
to the Fellowship; he told ...
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
He
paid a
fine tribute to the
Fellowship; he told how his
family had been
reunited;
he
extolled the
virtue
of
honesty; he
recalled
the
joys of
Twelfth Step work; and then he
lowered the
boom.
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