From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... year.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
One unkind tirade or one willful snap judgment can ruin our relation with another person for a whole day, or maybe a whole year.
2.
... year?
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
3.
... year.
BB p.3,
Bill's Story
4.
... year.
BB p.3,
Bill's Story
The exercise of an option brought in more money, leaving us with a profit of
several thousand dollars for that year.
5.
... year.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
My weary and despairing
wife was informed that it
would all end with heart failure during delirium tremens, or I
would develop a wet brain, perhaps within a year.
6.
... year.
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
If anyone questions whether he has entered this
dangerous area, let him try leaving liquor alone for one year.
7.
... year.
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
8.
... year.
BB p.149,
To Employers
9.
... year.
BB p.149,
To Employers
10.
... year.
BB p.570(572),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
The American Psychiatric Association requested, in 1949, that a
paper be prepared by one of the older members of Alcoholics Anonymous to be read at the
Association's annual
meeting of that year.
11.
... year.
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
12.
... year 1938.
12&12 p.145,
Tradition Three
It was the year 1938.
13.
... year ago
in a hospital where he ...
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
We first saw Fred about a year ago in a hospital where he had
gone to recover from a bad case of jitters.
14.
... year and
a half, during which I ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
It was fortunate, for my old business associates remained skeptical for a year and a
half, during which I found little work.
15.
... year and
six months later these three ...
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
16.
... year by
year we walk back through ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
Then, as year by year we walk back through our lives as far as memory will reach, we shall be bound to construct a long list of people who have, to
some extent or other, been
affected.
17.
... year later
he called to see me, ...
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
18.
... year of
his death, he carried the ...
BB p.171,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
To 1950, the year of his death, he carried the A.A. message to more than 5,000 alcoholic men and women, and to all these he gave
his medical services without thought of charge.
19.
... year or
more, becoming serious drinkers again ...
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
In the early days of our drinking we occasionally remained
sober for a year or more, becoming serious drinkers again later.
20.
... year prior
to this experience a man ...
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
21.
... year's time.
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
The news stories of Mr. Rockefeller's dinner for Alcoholics Anonymous helped double our total membership in a year's time.
22.
... Year Two.
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
23.
... year we
walk back through our lives ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
Then, as year by year we walk back through our lives as far as memory will reach, we shall be bound to construct a long list of people who have, to
some extent or other, been
affected.
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