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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

strength
strengthen
strengthened
STRENUOUS   occurs   3 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
strenuously
stress
stretch

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1.
... strenuous, comic, and tragic.   BB p.16, Bill's Story   Go to page 16 in the Big Book
Our struggles with them are variously strenuous, comic, and tragic.


2.
... strenuous effort to face, and to be ...   BB p.64, How It Works   Go to page 64 in the Big Book
Though our decision was a vital and crucial step, it could have little permanent effect unless at once followed by a strenuous effort to face, and to be rid of, the things in ourselves which had been blocking us.


3.
... strenuous work, one alcoholic with another, was ...   BB xvii, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
It also indicated that strenuous work, one alcoholic with another, was vital to permanent recovery.


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