SPEND in Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous, 12 Steps and 12 Traditions

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... spend her afternoons gambling, and run her ... 12&12 p.51, Step Four

She can juggle charge accounts, manipulate the food budget, spend her afternoons gambling, and run her husband into debt by irresponsibility, waste, and extravagance.

... spend lavishly on Twelfth Step cases, they ... 12&12 p.160, Tradition Seven

It was soon apparent that while alcoholics would spend lavishly on Twelfth Step cases, they had a terrific aversion to dropping money into a meeting-place hat for group purposes.

... spend most of their waking hours drearily ... 12&12 p.89, Step Ten

Must A.A.'s spend most of their waking hours drearily rehashing their sins of omission or commission?

... spend much of our spare time in ... BB p.19, There Is A Solution

All of us spend much of our spare time in the sort of effort which we are going to describe.

... spend much time with other alcoholics, but ... BB p.131, The Family Afterward

Father will necessarily spend much time with other alcoholics, but this activity should be balanced.

... spend too much time on any one ... BB p.96, Working With Others

To spend too much time on any one situation is to deny some other alcoholic an opportunity to live and be happy.

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