From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... looked after
and extricated from endless scrapes ...
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
As matters get worse, the husband becomes a sick and irresponsible child who
needs to be looked after and extricated from
endless scrapes and impasses.
2.
... looked and
listened.
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
3.
... looked askance
at many individuals who claimed ...
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
4.
... looked at
A.A. my reaction was just ...
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
5.
... looked at
it.
BB p.69,
How It Works
6.
... looked at
me as their spokesman continued.
12&12 p.138,
Tradition Two
7.
... looked at
one another, for they knew ...
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
8.
... looked at
the human defects of these ...
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
Instead, we looked at the
human defects of these people, and sometimes used their shortcomings
as a basis of wholesale
condemnation.
9.
... looked for
our own mistakes.
BB p.67,
How It Works
10.
... looked hungrily
on from the kitchen door.
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
Arriving home, I found Lois cooking as usual, while three drunks looked hungrily on from the kitchen door.
11.
... looked interested,
but not as excited as ...
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
12.
... looked like
a mere means of getting ...
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
When a job still looked like a mere means of getting money rather than an opportunity for service, when the acquisition of money for
financial independence looked more important than a right dependence upon God, we were still the victims of unreasonable fears.
13.
... looked like
a pig, and was uncomfortable ...
BB p.178,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I put on thirty pounds of weight in about two months, looked like a pig, and was uncomfortable from shortness of breath.
14.
... looked like
a very big coin.
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
15.
... looked more
important than a right dependence ...
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
When a job still looked like a mere means of getting money rather than an opportunity for service, when the acquisition of money for
financial independence looked more important than a right dependence upon God, we were still the victims of unreasonable fears.
16.
... looked more
like one prodigious squabble than ...
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
Before we leveled off a
bit, A.A. looked more like one prodigious squabble
than anything else, at least on the surface.
17.
... looked straight
at me.
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
He looked straight at me.
18.
... looked too
bad, we have frequently been ...
12&12 p.54,
Step Four
Because our surface record hasn't looked too bad, we have frequently been
abashed to find that this
is so simply because we
have buried these selfsame defects deep down in us under thick layers of self-justification.
19.
... looked too
easy.
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
20.
... looked upon
this world of warring individuals, ...
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
We looked upon this world of warring individuals, warring theological systems,
and inexplicable calamity, with deep skepticism.
21.
... looked upon
with great distrust and disfavor ...
BB p.171,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Men who had liquor shipped in from Boston or New York by express were looked upon with great distrust and disfavor by
most of the good townspeople.
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