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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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1.
  ... back.  BB Bill's Story, p.4
As I drank, the old fierce determination to win came back.


2.
  ... back.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.38
But the day he comes out he races in front of a fire engine, which breaks his back.


3.
  ... back.  BB Working With Others, p.99
Let no alcoholic say he cannot recover unless he has his family back.


4.
  ... back.  12&12 Step Five, p.59
Yet many of us still hung back.


5.
  ... back again.  BB Bill's Story, p.10
That war-time day in old Winchester Cathedral came back again.


6.
  Back again in their caves, alcoholics would ...  12&12 Tradition One, p.129
Back again in their caves, alcoholics would reproach us and say, "What a great thing A.A. might have been!"


7.
  ... back airing porch when winter days got ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.176
I used to put eight or twelve ounce bottles of alcohol in a fur lined glove and toss it onto the back airing porch when winter days got dark enough.


8.
  ... back and fished out a dime, which ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.163
Hastily, I dropped it back and fished out a dime, which clinked thinly as I dropped it in the hat.


9.
  ... back and forth over our careers, and ...  12&12 Step Five, p.55
If we have swept the searchlight of Step Four back and forth over our careers, and it has revealed in stark relief those experiences we'd rather not remember, if we have come to know how wrong thinking and action have hurt us and others, then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever.


10.
  ... back and think.  12&12 Step Ten, p.91
When we are tempted by the bait, we should train ourselves to step back and think.


11.
  ... back, as my wife and I sought ...  BB Bill's Story, p.6
There were flights from city to country and back, as my wife and I sought escape.


12.
  ... back at them.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.143
With great sarcasm Ed came back at them.


13.
  ... back away from their individual responsibilities to ...  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.177
Nor does it mean that the members of Alcoholics Anonymous, now restored as citizens of the world, are going to back away from their individual responsibilities to act as they see the right upon issues of our time.


14.
  ... back debts; the third deck would house ...  12&12 Tradition Four, p.147
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.


15.
  ... back every time he tries to look ...  12&12 Step Four, p.49
Both his pride and his fear beat him back every time he tries to look within himself.


16.
  ... back for one reason or another.  BB Working With Others, p.99
In some cases the wife will never come back for one reason or another.


17.
  ... back for two more quarters and remain ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.174
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.


18.
  ... back from the gates of death.  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvii
They believe in themselves, and still more in the Power which pulls chronic alcoholics back from the gates of death.


19.
  ... back, I find that I took it ...  12&12 Step Two, p.26
Looking back, I find that I took it piecemeal myself.


20.
  ... back, I thought that I was safe.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.177
When beer first came back, I thought that I was safe.


21.
  ... back in a little while hoping, always ...  BB To Wives, p.105
Our friends have counseled chucking the men and we have done so with finality, only to be back in a little while hoping, always hoping.


22.
  ... back in exhaustion after each futile effort ...  BB To Wives, p.107
As animals on a treadmill, we have patiently and wearily climbed, falling back in exhaustion after each futile effort to reach solid ground.


23.
  ... back in here again, we observe a ...  BB Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.570
Even among those who occasionally land back in here again, we observe a profound change in personality.


24.
  ... back in our own drinking histories, we ...  12&12 Step One, p.23
By going back in our own drinking histories, we could show that years before we realized it we were out of control, that our drinking even then was no mere habit, that it was indeed the beginning of a fatal progression.


25.
  ... back in the 1920's.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.136
Handing it to me, he continued, 'This shows the kind of money the hospital used to make back in the 1920's.


26.
  ... back in the hospital.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.40
One day we were told that he was back in the hospital.


27.
  ... back instantly!  BB The Family Afterward, p.123
Sometimes they demand that dad bring them back instantly!


28.
  ... back into his community in full citizenship, ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.110
To watch the eyes of men and women open with wonder as they move from darkness into light, to see their lives quickly fill with new purpose and meaning, to see whole families reassembled, to see the alcoholic outcast received back into his community in full citizenship, and above all to watch these people awaken to the presence of a loving God in their lives -- these things are the substance of what we receive as we carry A.A.'s message to the next alcoholic.


29.
  ... back into the drink.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.139
Everybody was scared witless that something or somebody would capsize the boat and dump us all back into the drink.


30.
  ... back into the old habits which had ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.175
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.


31.
  ... back into the social life of this ...  BB Working With Others, p.102
Now you are getting back into the social life of this world.


32.
  ... back nevertheless.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.40
The story he told is most instructive, for here was a chap absolutely convinced he had to stop drinking, who had no excuse for drinking, who exhibited splendid judgment and determination in all his other concerns, yet was flat on his back nevertheless.


33.
  ... back nothing, only by being willing to ...  12&12 Step Five, p.59
Only by discussing ourselves, holding back nothing, only by being willing to take advice and accept direction could we set foot on the road to straight thinking, solid honesty, and genuine humility.


34.
  ... back nothing, your sense of relief will ...  12&12 Step Five, p.62
Provided you hold back nothing, your sense of relief will mount from minute to minute.


35.
  ... back of any other cause.  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.177
We conceive the survival and spread of Alcoholics Anonymous to be something of far greater importance than the weight we could collectively throw back of any other cause.


36.
  Back of them is a world of ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.20
Back of them is a world of ignorance and misunderstanding.


37.
  ... back on Step Five.  12&12 Step Five, p.56
Few muddled attitudes have caused us more trouble than holding back on Step Five.


38.
  ... back over his life, he can readily ...  12&12 Step Four, p.50
Looking back over his life, he can readily get under way by consideration of questions such as these:


39.
  ... back steps where I could get it ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.176
My bootlegger had hidden alcohol at the back steps where I could get it at my convenience.


40.
  ... back the esteem of our friends and ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.92
Now that we're in A.A. and sober, and winning back the esteem of our friends and business associates, we find that we still need to exercise special vigilance.


41.
  ... back the next morning better than most ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.172
I seemed to be able to snap back the next morning better than most of my fellow drinkers, who were cursed (or perhaps blessed) with a great deal of morning-after nausea.


42.
  ... back there in some way, and I ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.175
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.


43.
  ... back, they think.  BB The Family Afterward, p.123
The good old days will soon be back, they think.


44.
  ... back through our lives.  BB How It Works, p.65
We went back through our lives.


45.
  ... back through our lives as far as ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.81
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.


46.
  ... back to Brooklyn on the subway, I ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.137
Racing back to Brooklyn on the subway, I had a seeming flash of divine guidance.


47.
  ... back to drink, but I soon found ...  BB Bill's Story, p.15
This sometimes nearly drove me back to drink, but I soon found that when all other measures failed, work with another alcoholic would save the day.


48.
  ... back to husband number one.  BB To Wives, p.110
Let's now go back to husband number one.


49.
  ... back to it even if I could."  BB More About Alcoholism, p.43
I would not go back to it even if I could."


50.
  ... back to sit in the meeting place, ...  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.173
Groups have tried to expel members, but the banished have come back to sit in the meeting place, saying, "This is life for us; you can't keep us out."


51.
  ... back to that sunlit beach -- or to ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.100
So let's get back to that sunlit beach -- or to the plains or to the mountains, if you prefer.


52.
  ... back to the bar.  BB Bill's Story, p.4
I went back to the bar.


53.
  ... back to the fraternity house because of ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.173
Many mornings I have gone to classes, and even though fully prepared, would turn and walk back to the fraternity house because of my jitters, not daring to enter the classroom for fear of making a scene should I be called on for recitation.


54.
  ... back to the list, for it held ...  BB How It Works, p.66
We turned back to the list, for it held the key to the future.


55.
  ... back to you from him.  BB To Wives, p.118
Show him these things in yourself and they will be reflected back to you from him.


56.
  ... back too soon.  BB Working With Others, p.100
We have seen others slip when the family came back too soon.


57.
  ... back, we feel we had gone on ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.34
As we look back, we feel we had gone on drinking many years beyond the point where we could quit on our will power.


58.
  ... back, we realize that the things which ...  BB Working With Others, p.100
When we look back, we realize that the things which came to us when we put ourselves in God's hands were better than anything we could have planned.


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