From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... old 24th
Street Clubhouse.
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
2.
... old acquaintance
stuck a tousled and aching ...
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
3.
... old affair
and angrily cast its ashes ...
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
Then, under one provocation or another,
the aggrieved one would unearth the old affair and angrily cast its ashes about.
4.
... old affair,
he was afraid it would ...
BB p.80,
Into Action
If he opened that old affair, he was afraid it
would destroy the reputation of his partner, disgrace his family and take away his means of livelihood.
5.
... old age?
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
How could we ever take care of those awful debts, possess a decent home, educate the kids, and set something by for old age?
6.
... old, an
event occurred demonstrating this principle.
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
7.
... old as
man himself.
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
For faith in a Power greater than ourselves,
and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself.
8.
... old attitudes
toward our instincts need to ...
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
And as we grow spiritually, we find that
our old attitudes toward our instincts need to undergo drastic revisions.
9.
... old, baffling
malady, alcoholism.
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
Alcoholics Anonymous is a worldwide fellowship
of more than one hundred thousand(*) alcoholic men and women who are banded together to solve their common problems and to help fellow sufferers in recovery
from that age-old, baffling malady, alcoholism.
10.
... old block.
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
11.
... old boy
was on fire all right.
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
12.
... old buildings
will eventually be replaced by ...
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
Though old buildings will eventually be replaced
by finer ones, the new structures will take years to complete.
13.
... old business
associates remained skeptical for a ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
It was fortunate, for my old business associates remained skeptical for a year and a
half, during which I found little work.
14.
... old can
container, and even the ash ...
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
15.
... old days.
BB p.102,
Working With Others
16.
... old days
will soon be back, they ...
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
17.
... old fierce
determination to win came back.
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
18.
... old financial
statement.
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
19.
... old folks
were right after all."
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
20.
... old game
again, for he isn't happy ...
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
21.
... old habits
which had wound up so ...
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I drank with moderation
at first, but it took me only
a relatively short time to drift back into the old habits which had wound up so disastrously before.
22.
... old hospital
in despair.
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
23.
... old ideas
and the result was nil ...
BB p.58,
How It Works
Some of us have tried to hold
on to our old ideas and the
result was nil until we let go absolutely.
24.
... old ideas
for new, by the complete ...
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
Is not our age characterized by the ease with which we discard
old ideas for new, by the complete readiness with which we throw away the theory or gadget which does
not work for something new which does?
25.
... old, insidious
insanity -- that first drink.
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
26.
... old life,
and the beginning of his ...
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
And so it is: the beginning of the end of his old life, and the beginning of
his emergence into a new
one.
27.
... old life
to find one much better.
BB p.120,
To Wives
28.
... old manner
of life was by no ...
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
My old manner of life was by no means a bad one, but I would not exchange
its best moments for the worst I have
now.
29.
... old pangs
of anxious apartness.
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
But we soon discovered
that while we weren't alone any more in a social sense, we still suffered many of the old pangs of anxious apartness.
30.
... old perplexities,
but our own experience does ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
We A.A.'s cannot pretend to
offer full answers to age-old perplexities, but our own experience does provide certain answers that work for us.
31.
... old pleasures
were gone.
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
32.
... old prejudice.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
33.
... old problems
will still be with you.
BB p.117,
To Wives
34.
... old public
health and social problem, alcoholism ...
BB p.571(573),
Appendix IV, The Lasker Award
"The American Public Health Association presents a Lasker Group Award for 1951 to Alcoholics Anonymous in recognition of its unique and highly successful approach to
that age-old public health and social problem, alcoholism ... In emphasizing alcoholism as an illness, the social stigma associated with
this condition is being
blotted out ... Historians may one day recognize Alcoholics Anonymous
to have been a great venture in social pioneering which forged a
new instrument for social action; a new therapy based on the kinship of common suffering; one having a vast potential for the myriad
other ills of mankind."
35.
... old relationship
is to be resumed it ...
BB p.99,
Working With Others
If their old relationship is to be resumed it must be on a better basis, since the former did not work.
36.
... old riddle
of alcoholism, He can solve ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
37.
... old school
friend asked if he might ...
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
38.
... old scrapes,
helping to settle family differences, ...
BB p.161,
A Vision For You
Cleaning up old scrapes, helping to settle family differences, explaining the disinherited son to his irate parents, lending money and securing jobs for each other, when justified -- these are everyday occurrences.
39.
... old, some
perhaps forgotten, and some still ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
This reopening of emotional wounds, some
old, some perhaps forgotten, and some still
painfully festering,
will at first look like a purposeless and pointless piece of surgery.
40.
... old story
and airplane travel was in ...
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
Only thirty years later the conquest of the air was almost an old story and airplane travel was in full swing.
41.
... old sweet
selves, only to dash the ...
BB p.107,
To Wives
For a while they would be their old sweet selves, only to dash the new structure of affection to pieces once more.
42.
... old threadbare
idea that this time we ...
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
If these thoughts occur,
they are hazy and readily
supplanted with the old
threadbare idea that
this time we shall handle ourselves like other people.
43.
... old tombstone:
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
44.
... old trunks
and chests, the old can ...
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
45.
... old ways,
for these disciplines are not ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
We need not be discouraged when we fall
into the error of our old ways, for these disciplines are not easy.
46.
... old Winchester
Cathedral came back again.
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
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