From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... worked.
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
2.
... worked!
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
It worked!
3.
... worked a
period of months on some ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
I have had many men who had,
for example, worked a period of months on some problem or business deal which was to be settled
on a certain date, favorably to them.
4.
... worked and
why yours seem to work ...
BB p.93,
Working With Others
But he will be curious to
learn why his own convictions have not
worked and why yours seem to work so well.
5.
... worked for
A.A. real cheap.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
6.
... worked-for promotion.
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
7.
... worked hard
with many alcoholics on the ...
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
Prior to his journey to Akron, the broker had worked hard with many alcoholics on the theory that only an alcoholic could help an alcoholic, but he had succeeded only in keeping
sober himself.
8.
... worked in
others, and we had come ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
But we saw that it really
worked in others, and we had
come to believe in the hopelessness and futility of life as we had
been living it.
9.
... worked nicely
until my wife and I ...
BB p.177,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
This worked nicely until my wife and I went to see Wallace Beery in "Tugboat Annie," after which the pant-leg and stocking racket were out!
10.
... worked on
a farm for a month ...
BB p.3,
Bill's Story
I had had some success at speculation, so we had a little money, but we once worked on a farm for a month to avoid drawing on our small capital.
11.
... worked the
Twelfth Step for a fee.
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
This has always been so obvious that only a very few A.A.'s have ever worked the Twelfth Step for a fee.
12.
... worked under
all conditions.
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
13.
... worked with
him, reviewing carefully what had ...
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
14.
... worked with
me.
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
15.
... worked with
them, we began to feel ...
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
When others showed us that
"God-sufficiency" worked with them, we began to feel like those who had insisted the
Wrights would never fly.
16.
... worked with
us.
BB p.95,
Working With Others
17.
... worked with
us.
BB p.144,
To Employers
By no means do we offer it as the last word on this subject, but so
far as we are concerned,
it has worked with us.
18.
... worked with
you.
BB p.95,
Working With Others
Show him how they worked with
you.
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