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... Two.
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
2.
... two.
BB p.109,
To Wives
3.
... two.
BB p.112,
To Wives
4.
... two about
himself which will place you ...
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
Before long, your listener may well tell a story or two about himself which will place you even more at ease.
5.
... two alcoholic
employees, who produce as much ...
BB p.149,
To Employers
6.
... two alternatives:
One was to go on ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
We were in a position where life was becoming impossible, and if we had passed into the region from
which there is no return through human aid, we had but two alternatives: One was to
go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of
our intolerable situation as best we could;
and the other, to accept spiritual help.
7.
... two and
a half years, but I ...
BB p.178,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I gave the matter much time and study for the next two and a half years, but I still got tight every night nevertheless.
8.
... two, and
a veteran of foreign wars, ...
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
9.
... Two, and
learn that the sole authority ...
12&12 p.132,
Tradition Two
These practical folk then
read Tradition Two, and learn that the sole authority in A.A. is a loving God as He may express Himself in the group conscience.
10.
... two and
one-half years of abstinence.
BB p.181,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Unlike most of our crowd, I
did not get over my craving for liquor much during the first two and one-half years of abstinence.
11.
... two and
three, where the alcoholic sickness ...
BB p.140,
To Employers
If this presents difficulty, re-reading chapters two and three, where the alcoholic sickness is discussed at length might
be worth while.
12.
... two bottles
a day, and often three, ...
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
13.
... two bottles,
and -- oblivion.
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
14.
... two cars
in the garage, began to ...
12&12 p.23,
Step One
Alcoholics who still
had their health, their families, their jobs, and even two cars in the garage, began to recognize their alcoholism.
15.
... two classes
known in A.A. slang as ...
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
Ultimately, they divide into two classes known in A.A. slang as "elder statesmen" and "bleeding deacons."
16.
... two concepts
which are sometimes poles apart.
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
It is the difference between the spirit of vested authority and the
spirit of service, two concepts which are sometimes poles apart.
17.
... two contrasting
ideas -- attraction and promotion -- work ...
12&12 p.181,
Tradition Eleven
18.
Two days
later, a future fellow of ...
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
Two days later, a future fellow of Alcoholics Anonymous stared glassily at the strangers beside his bed.
19.
... two directions.
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
20.
... two disastrous
pitfalls.
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
21.
... two distinct
phobias.
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
22.
... two emotions
quite as unhealthy as the ...
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
Demands made upon other people for too much attention, protection,
and love can only invite domination or revulsion in the protectors themselves
-- two emotions quite as unhealthy as the
demands which evoked
them.
23.
... two examples:
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
24.
Two --
For our group purpose there is ...
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Two (Long)
Two -- For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority -- a
loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience.
25.
Two --
For our group purpose there is ...
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Two -- For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority -- a
loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience.
26.
... two friends.
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
27.
... two friends
spoke of their spiritual experience ...
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
The two friends spoke of their spiritual experience and told him
about the course of action
they carried out.
28.
... two friends
told him about their drinking ...
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
29.
... Two gently
and very gradually began to ...
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
30.
... two he
became worse.
BB p.109,
To Wives
31.
... two hours
talking about alcoholism, the malady, ...
BB p.138,
To Employers
This seemed to me like an opportunity to be helpful, so I spent two hours talking about alcoholism, the malady,
and described the symptoms and results as well as I could.
32.
... Two is
the rallying point for all ...
12&12 p.33,
Step Two
33.
... two larger
centers.
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
Little clusters of twos and threes and fives of us have sprung up in other communities, through contact with our two larger centers.
34.
... two men
had appeared in court, persuading ...
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
In a matter of fact way he told how two men had appeared in court, persuading the judge to suspend his commitment.
35.
... two men
set to work almost frantically ...
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
Hence the two men set to work almost frantically upon alcoholics arriving in
the ward of the Akron City Hospital.
36.
... two million.
BB p.162,
A Vision For You (Note)
There is A.A. activity in approximately 150 countries, with an estimated membership
of over two million.
37.
... two million
have recovered through A.A.
12&12 p.15,
Foreword (Note)
38.
... two million
or more, with nearly 100,800 ...
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
Since the third edition
was published in 1976, worldwide membership
of A.A. has just about doubled, to an estimated
two million or more, with nearly 100,800 groups meeting in approximately 150 countries around the world.
39.
... two months
ago and the result was ...
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
40.
... two months
before I could venture out ...
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Finally my father had to
send a doctor out from my home town who managed to get me back there in some way, and I was in bed about two months before I could venture out of the house.
41.
... two months
he was in a hospital, ...
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
42.
... two months,
looked like a pig, and ...
BB p.177,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I put on thirty pounds of weight in about
two months, looked like a pig, and was uncomfortable from shortness of breath.
43.
... two more
quarters and remain absolutely dry, ...
BB p.174,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I was, of course, soon on
the carpet and the upshot
was that I had to go back for
two more quarters and remain absolutely dry, if I wished to graduate.
44.
... two more
years.
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
45.
... Two, most
A.A. newcomers are confronted with ...
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
The moment they read Step Two, most A.A. newcomers are confronted with a dilemma, sometimes a serious one.
46.
... two of
the greatest reservoirs of power ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Dr. Foster Kennedy, neurologist:
"This organization of Alcoholics Anonymous
calls on two of the greatest reservoirs of
power known to man, religion and that instinct for association with one's fellows ... the 'herd instinct.'
47.
"Two of
the members of Alcoholics Anonymous ...
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
48.
... two of
them, the First Step and ...
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
Maybe we are doing fine on only two of them, the First Step and that part of the Twelfth where we
"carry the message."
49.
... two of
you men, whose stories I ...
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
As to two of you men, whose stories I have heard, there is no doubt in my mind that you were
100% hopeless, apart from divine help.
50.
... two or
three alcoholics gathered together for ...
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
So confident of this had we become that the original statement of A.A. tradition carried this significant sentence:
"Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group provided that as a group they have no other affiliation."
51.
... two or
three alcoholics gathered together for ...
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Three (Long)
Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided that, as a
group, they have no other affiliation.
52.
... two or
three alcoholics gathered together for ...
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided that, as a
group, they have no other affiliation.
53.
... two or
three high hurdles, the course ...
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
54.
... two others,
and in confidence laid the ...
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
55.
... two out
of three -- began to return ...
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
56.
... two people:
one devoted secretary and myself.
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
57.
... two personal
stories and think: "Yes, that ...
BB xii,
Preface
If you have a drinking problem, we hope that you may
pause in reading one of the forty-two personal stories and think: "Yes, that happened to me"; or,
more important, "Yes, I've felt like that"; or, most important, "Yes, I believe this program can work for me too."
58.
... two points,
yet, there it was.
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
We could not prove life in
the sense that you can prove
a straight line is the shortest distance between two points, yet, there it was.
59.
... two principal
reasons: the large numbers of ...
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
60.
... Two right
now.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
61.
... "two-step" illusion.
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
62.
... "two-stepping."
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
63.
... "two-stepping" to
"twelve-stepping," if we are willing ...
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
Well, we surely have a chance if we switch from
"two-stepping" to "twelve-stepping," if we are
willing to receive that
grace of God which can sustain and strengthen
us in any catastrophe.
64.
... two Steps
we were engaged in reflection.
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
65.
... two stories
were written, with new titles; ...
BB xi,
Preface
"Bill's Story," "Doctor Bob's Nightmare," and one other personal history from the first edition were retained intact; three were edited and one of these was retitled; new versions of two stories were written, with
new titles; thirty completely new stories were added; and the story section was divided into three parts, under the same headings that are used now.
66.
... two storm
signals: A group ought not ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
In charting this enormous expanse of freedom, we found it necessary to post only two storm signals: A group ought not do anything which
would greatly injure A.A. as a whole, nor ought it affiliate itself with anything or anybody else.
67.
... two struggling,
nameless groups of alcoholics trying ...
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
In that time nothing could
be seen but two struggling, nameless groups of alcoholics trying to hold their faces up to the light.
68.
... two successive
days, so drunk he could ...
BB p.136,
To Employers
Not long afterward he had
called me from Hartford
on two successive days, so drunk he could hardly speak.
69.
... two that
originally appeared in Part III ...
BB xii,
Preface
One new story has been added to Part I, and two that originally appeared in
Part III have been repositioned there; six stories have been deleted.
70.
... two that
were transferred to Part I).
BB xii,
Preface
Part III now includes twelve new stories; eight were removed (in addition to
the two that were transferred to Part I).
71.
... Two we
saw that since we could ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
In Step Two we saw that since we could not restore ourselves to sanity, some Higher Power must necessarily do so if we were to survive.
72.
... two weeks
later, Ed stole by night ...
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
About two weeks later, Ed stole by night into an A.A. member's house and, unknown to the family, went to bed.
73.
... two weeks
of drinking, he had placed ...
BB p.137,
To Employers
After two weeks of drinking, he had placed his toe on the trigger of a loaded shotgun -- the barrel was in
his mouth.
74.
... two years.
BB p.174,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I conducted myself so
creditably that I was able to secure a much coveted internship in a western
city, where I spent two years.
75.
... two years
I was kept so busy ...
BB p.174,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
76.
... two years
were up, I opened an ...
BB p.174,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
77.
Two: Your
husband is showing lack of ...
BB p.109,
To Wives
Two: Your husband is showing lack of control, for he is unable to
stay on the water wagon even when he wants to.
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