From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... pioneering days.
12&12 p.182,
Tradition Eleven
With perfectly good intent, these folks declared that the principle of anonymity
was horse-and-buggy stuff, something appropriate to A.A.'s pioneering days.
2.
... pioneering period
ended and a prodigious chain ...
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
With the publication of the book "Alcoholics Anonymous" in 1939, the
pioneering period ended and a prodigious chain reaction set in as the recovered alcoholics carried their
message to still others.
3.
... pioneering time.
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
4.
... pioneering time,
none but the most desperate ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
In A.A.'s pioneering time, none but the most desperate cases could swallow and digest this unpalatable truth.
5.
... pioneering which
forged a new instrument for ...
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."
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