From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
FIRE occurs
7 times
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Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... fire.
BB p.110,
To Wives
2.
... fire all
right.
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
Yes, the
old boy was on
fire all
right.
3.
... fire, and
endure the monotony and misery ...
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
Would they be able to take
discipline,
stand up under
fire, and
endure the
monotony and
misery of
war?
4.
... fire engine,
which breaks his back.
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
But the
day he
comes out he
races in
front of a
fire engine, which
breaks his back.
5.
... fire him.
BB p.148,
To Employers
If a
man drinks so much that
his
job suffers, we
fire him.
6.
... fire me
for drinking and padding my ...
BB p.65,
How It Works
7.
... fire, only
to emerge unharmed and, we ...
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
Children of
chaos, we
have
defiantly played
with every
brand of
fire,
only to
emerge unharmed
and, we
think,
wiser.
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