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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
WON occurs
4 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... won a
war or lost a peace.
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
We had to
drink because our
nation had
won a
war or
lost a
peace.
2.
... won out.
BB p.37,
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3.
... won so
handsomely in a walk turned ...
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
We who had
won so
handsomely in a
walk turned into all-
time losers.
4.
... won through
in singlehanded combat.
12&12 p.22,
Step One
Few
indeed were those who, so
assailed, had ever
won
through in
singlehanded combat.
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