From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... night.
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
"It was meeting night.
2.
... night.
BB p.3,
Bill's Story
3.
... night.
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
4.
... night.
BB p.97,
Working With Others
5.
... night.
BB p.100,
Working With Others
6.
... night.
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
7.
... night.
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
He entered a political
campaign, making speeches, frequenting
men's gathering places of all sorts, often staying up all night.
8.
... night a
vague craving arose which would ...
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
9.
... night a
week for a meeting to ...
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
In addition to these casual get-togethers, it became customary to set apart one night a week for a meeting to be attended by
anyone or everyone interested in a spiritual way of life.
10.
... night, and
one bottle of beer the ...
BB p.180,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
He came and got me home and to bed, gave me a few drinks that night, and one bottle of beer the next morning.
11.
... night and
plenty next morning.
BB p.41,
More About Alcoholism
12.
... night and
preoccupied by day.
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
13.
... night and
the next day.
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
With a certain satisfaction I reflected there was enough
gin concealed about the house to carry me through that night and the next day.
14.
... night before.
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
15.
... night, but
in order to get more ...
BB p.177,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
My phobia for sleeplessness demanded that I get drunk every night, but in order to get more liquor for the next night, I had to stay sober during the day, at least up to four o'clock.
16.
... night Christian
Endeavor and sometimes to Wednesday ...
BB p.172,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
From childhood through
high school I was more or less forced to go to church, Sunday School and evening service, Monday night Christian Endeavor and sometimes
to Wednesday evening
prayer meeting.
17.
... night clubs,
or their equivalent, for something ...
BB p.81,
Into Action
18.
... night, I
had to stay sober during ...
BB p.177,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
My phobia for sleeplessness demanded that I get drunk every night, but in order to get more liquor for the next night, I had to stay sober during the day, at least up to four o'clock.
19.
... night in
1948, the trustees of the ...
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
20.
... night into
an A.A. member's house and, ...
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
About two weeks later, Ed stole by night into an A.A. member's house and, unknown to the family, went to bed.
21.
... night law
course, and obtained employment as ...
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
22.
... night nevertheless.
BB p.178,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I gave the matter much time and study for the next two and a half years, but I still got tight every night nevertheless.
23.
... night of
futile tossing around in bed ...
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
This would lessen my chances of smuggling some
home that evening, which in
turn would mean a night of futile tossing around in bed followed by a morning of unbearable jitters.
24.
... night place
supplied me with a dozen ...
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
25.
... night, stayed
sober Monday till after the ...
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I got tight that night, stayed sober Monday till after the dinner, and then proceeded
to get tight again.
26.
... night, to
place a new man in ...
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
27.
... night was
at New York's old 24th ...
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
28.
... night, we
constructively review our day.
BB p.86,
Into Action
29.
... night, when
confined in a hospital, he ...
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
One night, when confined in a hospital,
he was approached by an alcoholic who had known a
spiritual experience.
30.
... night when
the physical and mental torture ...
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
Then came the night when the
physical and mental torture was so hellish I feared I would burst through my window, sash and all.
31.
... night, "Who,
then, made all this?"
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
Yet, in other moments, we found ourselves thinking, when
enchanted by a starlit
night, "Who, then, made all
this?"
32.
... night, years
ago, it disappeared.
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
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