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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
HEAVY occurs
12 times
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1.
... heavy attack of criticism from both A.A. ...
12&12 p.165,
Tradition Seven
The
board would be
isolated, and would
fall
under
heavy attack of
criticism from both
A.A. and
the
public.
2.
... heavy drinker.
BB p.108,
To Wives
One: Your
husband may be only a
heavy drinker.
3.
... heavy drinking.
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
But not so with us in those
last days of
heavy drinking.
4.
... heavy financial reverses.
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
Though the
earning power
of most
A.A.'s is
relatively high, we have
some
members who
never seem to get on their
feet moneywise, and still others who
encounter heavy financial reverses.
5.
... heavy going of life.
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
6.
... heavy only because a great many of ...
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
The
emphasis on
inventory is
heavy only
because a
great many of us have
never really
acquired the
habit of
accurate self-
appraisal.
7.
... heavy only on certain occasions.
BB p.109,
To Wives
His
drinking may be
constant or it may be
heavy
only on
certain occasions.
8.
... heavy or even unjust, new lessons for ...
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
He will also
report that out of every
season of
grief or
suffering, when the
hand of
God seemed heavy or even
unjust, new
lessons for
living were
learned, new
resources of
courage were
uncovered, and that finally,
inescapably, the
conviction came that
God does "
move in a
mysterious way His
wonders to
perform."
9.
... heavy penalty, it was thought, for blasphemy.
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
There
must be a
heavy penalty, it was
thought,
for
blasphemy.
10.
... heavy pressure and coercion to do the ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
At this
stage of our
progress we are under
heavy
pressure and
coercion
to do the
right thing.
11.
... heavy sedative.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
A
doctor came with a
heavy sedative.
12.
... heavy smoker and coffee drinker.
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
Here is a
case in
point: One
of our
friends is a
heavy
smoker and
coffee drinker.
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