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

sweets
swell
swelling
SWEPT   occurs   4 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
swift
swing
swinging

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1.
... swept away.   BB p.56, We Agnostics   Go to page 56 in the Big Book
The barriers he had built through the years were swept away.

2.
... swept floors, cooks who fried hamburgers, secretaries ...   12&12 p.167, Tradition Eight
Caretakers who swept floors, cooks who fried hamburgers, secretaries in offices, authors writing books -- all these we have seen hotly assailed because they were, as their critics angrily remarked, "making money out of A.A."

3.
... swept in, we realized that it could ...   12&12 p.187, Tradition Twelve
As this tide offering top public approval swept in, we realized that it could do us incalculable good or great harm.

4.
... swept the searchlight of Step Four back ...   12&12 p.55, Step Five
If we have swept the searchlight of Step Four back and forth over our careers, and it has revealed in stark relief those experiences we'd rather not remember, if we have come to know how wrong thinking and action have hurt us and others, then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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