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

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TEMPERANCE   occurs   3 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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... temperance crusaders, within a very few years ...   12&12 p.178, Tradition Ten
When the Washingtonians became temperance crusaders, within a very few years they had completely lost their effectiveness in helping alcoholics.


2.
... temperance pledge I never signed; my grandfather's ...   BB p.10, Bill's Story   Go to page 10 in the Big Book
I could almost hear the sound of the preacher's voice as I sat, on still Sundays, way over there on the hillside; there was that proffered temperance pledge I never signed; my grandfather's good natured contempt of some church folk and their doings; his insistence that the spheres really had their music; but his denial of the preacher's right to tell him how he must listen; his fearlessness as he spoke of these things just before he died; these recollections welled up from the past.


3.
... temperance society.   BB p.570(572), Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.   Display entire Appendix III
Dr. W. W. Bauer, broadcasting under the auspices of The American Medical Association in 1946, over the NBC network, said, in part: "Alcoholics Anonymous are no crusaders; not a temperance society.


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