From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... up.
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
"Then I woke up.
2.
... up.
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
3.
... up!"
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
4.
... up!"
12&12 p.69,
Step Six
Perhaps we shall be obliged in some cases still to say, "This I cannot give up yet...," but we should not say to
ourselves, "This I will
never give up!"
5.
... up.
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
There's the spot-check inventory, taken at any time of the day, whenever we find ourselves getting tangled up.
6.
... up.
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
It will become more and more evident as we go forward that it is pointless to become angry, or to get hurt by people who, like us, are suffering from
the pains of growing up.
7.
... up.
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
8.
... up.
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
9.
... up.
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
10.
... up?
12&12 p.154,
Tradition Five
Where would we have wound up?
11.
... up.
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
12.
... up.
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
"Then I woke up.
13.
... up.
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
14.
... up.
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
I woke up.
15.
... up.
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
16.
... up.
BB p.62,
How It Works
He is like the retired business man who lolls in the Florida sunshine in the winter complaining of the sad state of the nation; the minister who sighs over the sins of the twentieth century; politicians and reformers who are sure all
would be Utopia if the rest
of the world would only behave; the outlaw safe cracker who thinks society has wronged him; and the alcoholic who has lost all
and is locked up.
17.
... up."
BB p.65,
How It Works
We were "burned up."
18.
... up.
BB p.105,
To Wives
19.
... up.
BB p.113,
To Wives
20.
... up.
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
21.
... up a
balance sheet, crediting ourselves with ...
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
Here we cast up a balance sheet, crediting ourselves with things well done, and chalking up debits where due.
22.
... up a
balance sheet for the day.
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
When evening comes, perhaps just before going to sleep, many of us draw up a balance sheet for the day.
23.
... up a
bright outlook for his family ...
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
He uses his gifts to build up a bright outlook for his family and himself, and then
pulls the structure down on his head by a senseless series of sprees.
24.
... up a
couple of nurses.
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
25.
... up a
disastrous chain reaction.
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
Compared to this prospect, the ten thousand dollars under consideration
wasn't much, but like the alcoholic's first drink it would, if taken, inevitably set up a disastrous chain reaction.
26.
... up a
fragment of A.A. history, and ...
12&12 p.132,
Tradition Two
Then they commence to watch us with speculative
eyes, pick up a fragment of A.A. history, and soon have the solid facts.
27.
... up a
good chunk of our firm's ...
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
Suppose, for instance,
that we have drunk up a good chunk of our firm's money, whether by "borrowing" or
on a heavily padded expense account.
28.
... up a
hurricane, and we have discovered ...
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
Even the suggestion of
such a thing never fails to whip up a hurricane, and we have discovered that hurricanes have a way of mauling with equal severity both the just and the unjust.
29.
... up a
particular idea of Him with ...
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
To others, the word "God" brought up a particular idea of Him with which someone
had tried to impress them
during childhood.
30.
... up a
path which led to the ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
Time after time, this apparent calamity has been a boon to
us, for it opened up a path which led to the discovery of God.
31.
... up a
sheaf of papers.
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
32.
... up A.A.'s
Tradition of nonprofessionalism.
12&12 p.171,
Tradition Eight
This is the exciting welter of events which has finally cast up A.A.'s Tradition of nonprofessionalism.
33.
... up about
sex: We earnestly pray for ...
BB p.70,
How It Works
To sum up about sex: We earnestly pray for the right ideal, for guidance in each questionable situation, for sanity, and
for the strength to do the right thing.
34.
... up about
their troubles, but not at ...
BB p.119,
To Wives
35.
... up about
you, to have a host ...
BB p.89,
Working With Others
To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to have a host of friends -- this is an experience you must not miss.
36.
... up after
some relapses, and among the ...
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
Of alcoholics who came
to A.A. and really tried, 50% got sober at once and remained that way; 25% sobered up after some relapses, and among the remainder, those who stayed on with A.A. showed improvement.
37.
... up again."
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
"The doctor told him that if
he ever drank again it would kill him, but
there he is all lit up again."
38.
... up all
night.
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
He entered a political
campaign, making speeches, frequenting
men's gathering places of all sorts, often staying up all night.
39.
... up among
them.
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
We feel, after many years of experience, that we have found nothing which has contributed more to the rehabilitation of these men than the altruistic movement now growing up among them.
40.
... up among
us of which it is ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
We commenced to make many fast friends and a fellowship
has grown up among us of which it is a wonderful thing to feel a part.
41.
... up an
alcoholic employee.
BB p.148,
To Employers
42.
... up, and
after doing all we can ...
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
For example, we may set our
hearts on getting a particular person sobered up, and after doing all we can for months, we see him relapse.
43.
... up and
ask him how you can ...
BB p.120,
To Wives
44.
... up and
conform to social usage!"
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
45.
... up and
down ranting how irresponsible and ...
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
Looking at this avalanche of mail one morning at the office, I paced up and down ranting how irresponsible and tightwad my fellow members were.
46.
... up and
it was found, to the ...
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
New groups started up and it was found, to the astonishment of everyone, that A.A.'s message could be transmitted in the mail as
well as by word of mouth.
47.
... up and
made an explanation.
BB p.80,
Into Action
48.
... up, and
nothing but good can come ...
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
But in the longer run we clearly realize that these
are only the pains of growing up, and nothing but good can come from them if we turn more and more to the entire Twelve Steps for the answers.
49.
... up and
out, and who wish to ...
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
We have been talking about problems because we are problem people who have found a way up and out, and who wish to share our knowledge of that way with
all who can use it.
50.
... up and
set on my feet.
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
51.
... up as
dreams of romance.
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
And even while staying within conventional bounds, many people have to admit that their imaginary
sex excursions are apt to be all dressed up as dreams of romance.
52.
... up as
one of the greatest credits ...
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
Even when we have tried hard and failed, we may chalk that up as one of the greatest credits of all.
53.
... up, as
though the great clean wind ...
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
54.
... up at
a friend's house, in a ...
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
55.
... up, at
least until they cause us ...
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
Nearly anyone could submit a good list of such defects as these, and few of us
would seriously think of
giving them up, at least until they cause us excessive misery.
56.
... up attitudes,
very happy results do follow.
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
57.
... up behind
Walter.
BB p.3,
Bill's Story
58.
... up between
you and your friends will ...
BB p.115,
To Wives
Barriers which have sprung up between you and your friends will disappear with the growth
of sympathetic understanding.
59.
... up, but
if our experience is a ...
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
Some of them may sink and perhaps never get up, but if our experience is a criterion, more than half of those approached will become fellows of Alcoholics Anonymous.
60.
... up, but
of course a good doctor ...
BB p.114,
To Wives
When they become too dangerous, we think the kind thing is to lock them up, but of course a good doctor should always be consulted.
61.
... up by
the sheer spiritual power, beauty, ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
Let us become willing to partake and be
strengthened and lifted up by the sheer spiritual power, beauty, and love of which these magnificent words are the
carriers.
62.
... up debits
where due.
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
Here we cast up a balance sheet, crediting ourselves with things well done, and chalking up debits where due.
63.
... up derelicts
from skid rows, sort out ...
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
We'd gather up derelicts from skid rows, sort out those who could get well, and make it possible for the rest to earn their livelihood in a kind of quarantined confinement.
64.
... up drunks
and hand them currency for ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
Beginning on the ground
floor there would be a club;
in the second story they
would sober up drunks and hand them currency for their back debts; the third deck would house an educational project --
quite noncontroversial, of course.
65.
... up during
business hours.
BB p.146,
To Employers
He may wish to do a lot for other alcoholics and something of the sort may come up during business hours.
66.
... up emotions
of years break out of ...
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
The dammed-up emotions of years break out of their confinement, and miraculously vanish as
soon as they are exposed.
67.
... up energy
foolishly as we did when ...
BB p.88,
Into Action
We do not tire so easily,
for we are not burning up
energy foolishly as we
did when we were trying to arrange life to suit ourselves.
68.
... up for
lost time.
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
69.
... up from
the dry camp.
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
70.
... up from
the past.
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
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.
71.
... up his
marriage responsibilities with a willingness ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
The alcoholic, realizing what his wife has
endured, and now fully understanding how
much he himself did to damage her and his children, nearly always takes up his marriage responsibilities with a willingness to repair
what he can and to accept what he can't.
72.
... up his
mind that until he had ...
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
He made up his mind that until he had been successful in business
and had retired, he would not touch another drop.
73.
... up his
mind to quit drinking altogether.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
74.
... up his
spirits.
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
75.
... up, I
opened an office downtown.
BB p.174,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
76.
... up in
a cheap hotel.
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
77.
... up in
a law suit and bogged ...
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
78.
... up in
A.A. and his new friends ...
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
Her husband may become so
wrapped up in A.A. and his new friends that he is inconsiderately away
from home more than when he drank.
79.
... up in
an asylum, hoping to mend ...
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
80.
... up in
each city and hamlet, havens ...
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
They will approach still other sick ones and fellowships of Alcoholics Anonymous
may spring up in each city and hamlet, havens for those who must find a way out.
81.
... up in
four ounce bottles and stick ...
BB p.177,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
82.
... up in
him.
BB p.57,
We Agnostics
Save for a few brief moments of temptation the thought
of drink has never returned; and at such times a great revulsion has risen up in him.
83.
... up in
his reading.
BB p.180,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
84.
... up in
it?"
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
85.
... up in
other communities."
BB xv,
Foreword to Second Edition
Already," continues
the early text "twos and threes and fives of us have sprung up in other communities."
86.
... up in
other communities, through contact with ...
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.
87.
... up in
Step Nine by making direct ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
We followed this up in Step Nine by making direct amends to those concerned, except when it
would injure them or other
people.
88.
... up in
the local hospital where they ...
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
After three years of this, I wound up in the local hospital where they attempted to help me, but I
would get my friends to smuggle me a quart, or I
would steal the alcohol
about the building, so that I got rapidly worse.
89.
... up in
the morning, shake your head ...
BB p.139,
To Employers
Of an evening, you can go on
a mild bender, get up in the morning, shake your head and go to business.
90.
... up into
prideful balloons, though we were ...
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
We used our education to
blow ourselves up into prideful balloons, though we were careful to hide this from others.
91.
... up into
warring fragments.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
92.
... up into
weeks, the weeks into months ...
BB p.570(572),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
93.
... up, just
as much as the feeling ...
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
We finally saw that faith in some kind of God was a part of our make-up, just as much as the feeling we have for a friend.
94.
... up just
then; the groups weren't sending ...
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
The Foundation was really hard up just then; the groups weren't sending in enough for the support of the office; we
had been tossing in all the book income and even that hadn't been enough.
95.
... up liquor
entirely if they have good ...
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
96.
... up many
a fine chance to right ...
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
Or we may just procrastinate, telling ourselves the time is not yet, when in reality we have already passed up many a fine chance to right a serious wrong.
97.
... up, may
die or go permanently insane.
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
When this sort of thinking
is fully established
in an individual with alcoholic tendencies,
he has probably placed
himself beyond human aid, and unless locked up, may die or go permanently insane.
98.
... up mentally
and physically, but he does ...
BB p.109,
To Wives
99.
... up more
than one-fourth of the membership; ...
BB xxii,
Foreword to Third Edition
Women now make up more than one-fourth of the membership;
among newer members, the proportion
is nearly one-third.
100.
... up my
hands in discouragement, for I ...
BB p.138,
To Employers
I wanted to throw up my hands in discouragement, for I saw that I had failed to help my banker friend understand.
101.
... up my
mind that I could not ...
BB p.173,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
This went from bad to worse until sophomore spring when, after a prolonged period of drinking, I made up my mind that I could not complete my course, so I packed my grip and went South to spend a month on a large farm owned by a friend of mine.
102.
... up my
mind to go through with ...
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
But the moment I made up my mind to go through with the process, I had the curious
feeling that my alcoholic condition was
relieved, as in fact it proved to be.
103.
... up my
wife one Saturday afternoon saying ...
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
About this time a lady called up my wife one Saturday afternoon saying she wanted me to come over that evening to meet a friend of hers who might help me.
104.
... up old
scrapes, helping to settle family ...
BB p.161,
A Vision For You
Cleaning up old scrapes, helping to settle family differences, explaining the disinherited son to his irate parents, lending money and securing jobs for each other, when justified -- these are everyday occurrences.
105.
... up on
large doses of sedatives to ...
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Most of the time, therefore, I did not take
the morning drink which I
craved so badly, but instead would fill up on large doses of sedatives to quiet the jitters, which distressed me terribly.
106.
... up on
the spiritual program of action ...
BB p.85,
Into Action
107.
... up on
them and become astonishingly difficult ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
These allergic types can
never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self-confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve.
108.
... up others'
minds for them.
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
109.
... up our
deep-lying inferiorities.
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
110.
... up our
hands in doubt and said, ...
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
Hence we are at pains to tell why we think our present faith is reasonable, why we think it more sane and logical to believe than not
to believe, why we say our former thinking was soft and mushy when we threw up our hands in doubt and said, "We don't know."
111.
... up our
natural desires for personal distinction ...
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
Moved by the spirit of anonymity, we try to give up our natural desires for personal distinction
as A.A. members both among fellow alcoholics and before the general public.
112.
... up our
positions and off we roared ...
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
We gave up our positions and off we roared on a motorcycle,
the sidecar stuffed with
tent, blankets, a change of clothes, and three huge volumes of a financial reference service.
113.
... up out
of his cyclone cellar to ...
BB p.82,
Into Action
114.
... up out
of my friends.
12&12 p.138,
Tradition Two
115.
... up past
misdeeds so they become a ...
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
116.
... up people,
we would have to put ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
It became clear that if we
ever were to feel emotionally secure among grown-up people, we would have to put our lives on a give-and-take basis; we would have to develop the sense of being in partnership or
brotherhood with all those around us.
117.
... up personal
desires for the common good, ...
12&12 p.184,
Tradition Twelve
Because A.A.'s Twelve Traditions repeatedly ask us to give up personal desires for the
common good, we realize that the sacrificial spirit -- well symbolized by anonymity -- is the foundation of them all.
118.
... up politics.
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
119.
... up process
is now going on.
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
Alcohol being no respecter of persons, we are an accurate cross section of America, and in
distant lands, the same democratic evening-up process is now going on.
120.
... up several
stories more, but three would ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
In imagination the gleaming center was to go up several stories more, but three would do for a
start.
121.
... up sharply.
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
122.
... up so
disastrously before.
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I drank with moderation
at first, but it took me only
a relatively short time to drift back into the old habits which had wound up so disastrously before.
123.
... up, something
like half of us thought ...
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
124.
... up somewhere,
or would stumble along to ...
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
Everyone became resigned to the certainty that I would have to be shut up somewhere, or would stumble along to a miserable end.
125.
... up, telephones
installed, and a few full-time ...
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
To save whole areas from turmoil, small offices had to be set up, telephones installed,
and a few full-time secretaries hired.
126.
... up the
alimony to number one.
BB p.79,
Into Action
127.
... up the
basic ideas in Akron or ...
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
Besides these, there were scattered alcoholics
who had picked up the basic ideas in Akron or New York who were trying to form groups in other cities.
128.
... up the
business of drinking with much ...
BB p.173,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
129.
... up the
deficiency.
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
Instead of developing
new channels of activity for themselves, mother and children demand that he stay home and make up the deficiency.
130.
... up the
head nurse of a local ...
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
131.
... up the
key of willingness.
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
Though self-will may slam it shut again, as it frequently does, it will always respond the moment we again pick up the key of willingness.
132.
... up the
merits of this or that ...
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
A.A. groups had their fling at education, and
when they began to publicly whoop up the merits of this or that brand, people became confused.
133.
... up the
past.
BB p.84,
Into Action
134.
... up the
root causes.
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
Questions like these, more of which will come to mind easily in each individual case, will help turn up the root causes.
135.
... up the
self-centered person; and we were ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
We wives found that, like everybody else, we were afflicted with
pride, self-pity, vanity and all the things which go to make up the self-centered person; and we were not above
selfishness or dishonesty.
136.
... up the
simple kit of spiritual tools ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
When, therefore, we were approached by those in
whom the problem had been solved, there was nothing left for us but to pick up the simple kit of spiritual tools laid at our feet.
137.
... up the
study of medicine, entering one ...
BB p.173,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
My next move was to take up the study of medicine, entering one of the largest universities
in the country.
138.
... up the
subject himself.
BB p.111,
To Wives
139.
... up their
beds and walk again.
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
140.
... up their
heads and be like other ...
BB p.105,
To Wives
Our loyalty and the desire that our husbands hold up their heads and be like other men have begotten all sorts of predicaments.
141.
... up this
sometimes serious leak.
BB p.148,
To Employers
142.
... up those
feelings of inadequacy by bluffing, ...
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
Did I try to cover up those feelings of inadequacy
by bluffing, cheating,
lying, or evading responsibility?
143.
... up to.
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
144.
... up to
2,000.
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
145.
... up to
another person.
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
146.
... up to
final exams I went on ...
BB p.174,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
147.
... up to
four o'clock.
BB p.177,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
My phobia for sleeplessness demanded that I get drunk every night, but in order to get more liquor for the next night, I had to stay sober during the day, at least up to four o'clock.
148.
... up to
me the basic principle of ...
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
Time after time, my instructors held up to me the basic principle of all scientific progress: search and research, again and again, always with the open mind.
149.
... up to
ridicule.
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
150.
... up to
that cherished vision.
BB p.118,
To Wives
It is the most natural thing in the world, once his liquor problem is solved, to feel that he will now measure up to that cherished vision.
151.
... up to
the fact.
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
They should have been weaned long before, and if they have
not been, they should wake up
to the fact.
152.
... up to
the Judge and said, "Here ...
BB p.79,
Into Action
153.
... up to
the less violent aspects of ...
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
154.
... up to
the light.
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.
155.
... up to
the moment of his death ...
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
156.
... up to
the time you quit.
BB p.91,
Working With Others
157.
... up to
them.
BB p.69,
How It Works
158.
... up to
them even though we would ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
Many of us had moral and philosophical convictions galore, but
we could not live up to them
even though we would have liked to.
159.
... up to
this point:
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
160.
Up to
this point you would label ...
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
161.
... up topers
could find needed care.
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
Now and then, A.A. members have bought farms or rest homes where badly beat-up topers could find needed care.
162.
... up under
fire, and endure the monotony ...
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
Would they be able to take discipline, stand up under fire, and endure the monotony and misery of war?
163.
... up under
later pressures to cripple them.
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
They need to be as sure as possible that no deep-lying emotional handicap in either will be likely to rise up under later pressures to cripple them.
164.
... up view
of the principles and forces ...
12&12 p.18,
Foreword
It is hoped that this volume will afford all who read it a close-up view of the principles and
forces which have made Alcoholics Anonymous
what it is.
165.
... up, we
ask God at once to ...
BB p.84,
Into Action
166.
... up, we
ought to erase the hard-and-fast ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
Looking again at those defects we are still unwilling to give up, we ought to erase the hard-and-fast lines that we have drawn.
167.
... up which
caused our failure.
BB p.64,
How It Works
168.
... up with
a bigger explosion then ever.
BB p.101,
Working With Others
If the alcoholic tries
to shield himself he may
succeed for a time, but he
usually winds up with a bigger explosion then ever.
169.
... up with
a bottle of scotch and ...
BB p.101,
Working With Others
His only chance for sobriety would be some place
like the Greenland Ice Cap, and even there an Eskimo might turn up with a bottle of scotch and ruin everything!
170.
... up with
a conclusion that shocked the ...
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
171.
... up with
a fifty-cent piece.
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
172.
... up with
a laugh and gone on ...
12&12 p.149,
Tradition Four
173.
... up with
an old financial statement.
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
174.
... up with
anger, fear, frustration, or misunderstanding, ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
Just saying it over and over will often enable us to clear a channel choked up with anger, fear, frustration, or misunderstanding, and permit us to return to the surest help of all -- our search for God's will, not our own, in the moment of stress.
175.
... up with
beer nobody could tell what ...
BB p.178,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
It then occurred to me that after one was all smelled up with beer nobody could tell what had been drunk, so I
began to fortify my beer with straight alcohol.
176.
... up with
his hospital or any other?
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
As generous as Charlie
has been to us, don't you see that we can't tie this thing up with his hospital or any other?
177.
... up with
me again and my generous ...
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
178.
... up with
me much faster than I ...
BB p.3,
Bill's Story
179.
... up with
some major calamity, and to ...
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
More often, though, we had met up with some major calamity, and to our way of thinking lost out because God deserted us.
180.
... up with
the drys, the other half ...
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
Half the people in this country would think we'd signed up with the drys, the other half would think we'd joined the wets.
181.
... up with
the right answer for that ...
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
182.
... up with
women in a fashion we ...
BB p.80,
Into Action
183.
... up yet."
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
Even then the best of us will discover to our dismay that there is always a
sticking point, a point at which we say, "No, I can't give this up yet."
184.
... up yet...,"
but we should not say ...
12&12 p.69,
Step Six
Perhaps we shall be obliged in some cases still to say, "This I cannot give up yet...," but we should not say to
ourselves, "This I will
never give up!"
185.
... up you
are, Bill.
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
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