From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... top and
come through to the bottom, ...
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
Some would
start at the
top
and
come through to the
bottom,
becoming club members; others
started in the
club,
pitched a
binge, were
hospitalized, then
graduated to
education
on the
third floor.
2.
... top blew
through and through.
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
I
felt lifted up, as though
the
great clean wind of a
mountain top blew through and through.
3.
... top of
the heap, or to hide ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
Always we
tried to
struggle to the
top of the
heap, or to
hide underneath it.
4.
... top of
them lay the foreword to ...
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
On
top of them
lay the
foreword to the book "
Alcoholics Anonymous,"
then under
preparation.
5.
... top over
an outlay of twenty-five dollars' ...
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
6.
... top priority
rating.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
7.
... top public
approval swept in, we realized ...
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
8.
... top secret.
12&12 p.171,
Tradition Eight
9.
... top to
bottom.
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
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