From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... supply.
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
We won't have far to seek; the
great men and women of all religions have
left us a wonderful supply.
2.
... supply away
from him to throw down ...
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
If he can afford it, he may have liquor concealed all over his house to be certain no one gets his entire supply away from him to throw down the wastepipe.
3.
... supply of
current.
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
We are delighted with this dependence; our main hope is that nothing will ever cut off the supply of current.
4.
... supply of
liquor and smuggle it home ...
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
If my wife was planning to
go out in the afternoon, I would get a large supply of liquor and smuggle it home and hide it in the coal bin, the clothes chute, over door jambs, over beams in the cellar, and in cracks in the cellar tile.
5.
... supply the
government made it possible for ...
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
At that time I was not aware
of the almost unlimited
supply the government made it possible for us doctors to obtain, neither had I any knowledge of the bootlegger who soon appeared on the horizon.
6.
... supply us
with more satisfactions or pleasures ...
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
When they drive us blindly, or we willfully
demand that they supply us
with more satisfactions or pleasures than are possible or due us, that is
the point at which we depart from the degree of perfection that God wishes for us here on earth.
7.
... supply us
with the next drink and ...
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
When our drinking had become much worse, money was only an urgent requirement which
could supply us with the next
drink and the temporary
comfort of oblivion it
brought.
8.
... supply was
inexhaustible, though between binges we'd ...
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
In our drinking time, we
acted as if the money supply was inexhaustible,
though between binges we'd sometimes go to the other extreme and become almost miserly.
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