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1.
  ... up.  BB Bill's Story, p.5
I woke up.


2.
  ... up.  BB Bill's Story, p.11
Society was about to lock him up.


3.
  ... up.  BB How It Works, pp.61-62
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.


4.
  ... up."  BB How It Works, p.65
We were "burned up."


5.
  ... up.  BB To Wives, p.105
In the morning we have kissed and made up.


6.
  ... up.  BB To Wives, p.113
Everybody had given them up.


7.
  ... up.  BB A Vision For You, p.158
After several failures to find others, a fourth turned up.


8.
  ... up.  12&12 Step Two, p.27
"Then I woke up.


9.
  ... up.  12&12 Step Four, p.43
This weak one, failing to meet life's responsibilities with his own resources, never grows up.


10.
  ... up!"  12&12 Step Six, p.66
And we shall often tread on even more dangerous ground when we cry, "This I will never give up!"


11.
  ... up!"  12&12 Step Six, p.69
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!"


12.
  ... up.  12&12 Step Ten, p.89
There's the spot-check inventory, taken at any time of the day, whenever we find ourselves getting tangled up.


13.
  ... up.  12&12 Step Ten, p.92
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.


14.
  ... up.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.136
'Bill,' he said, 'I think it's a shame that you are financially so hard up.


15.
  ... up.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.137
"Although I asked Charlie for a little time to consider it, my own mind was about made up.


16.
  ... up.  12&12 Tradition Four, p.147
In a town we'll call Middleton, a real crackerjack had started up.


17.
  ... up?  12&12 Tradition Five, p.154
Where would we have wound up?


18.
  ... up.  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.163
But finally he said it -- the landlord would put us out if we didn't pay up.


19.
  ... up.  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.163
"Then I woke up.


20.
  ... up.  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.167
They just didn't show up.


21.
  ... up a balance sheet, crediting ourselves with ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.89
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 Step Ten, p.93
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 There Is A Solution, p.21
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 A Vision For You, p.156
He's just beaten up a couple of nurses.


25.
  ... up a disastrous chain reaction.  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.164
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 Tradition Two, p.132
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 Step Nine, p.86
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 Tradition Eight, p.169
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 We Agnostics, p.45
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 To Wives, p.116
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 Tradition Three, p.143
He reached over to a bookshelf and took up a sheaf of papers.


32.
  ... up A.A.'s Tradition of nonprofessionalism.  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.171
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 How It Works, p.70
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 To Wives, p.119
He gets stirred up about their troubles, but not at all about yours.


35.
  ... up about you, to have a host ...  BB Working With Others, p.89
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 Foreword to Second Edition, p.xx
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 There Is A Solution, p.20
"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 A Vision For You, p.158
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 The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxviii
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 Bill's Story, p.15
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 To Employers, p.148
He will have no further reason for covering up an alcoholic employee.


42.
  ... up, and after doing all we can ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.111
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 To Wives, p.120
Cheer him up and ask him how you can be still more helpful.


44.
  ... up and conform to social usage!"  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.174
They won't grow up and conform to social usage!"


45.
  ... up and down ranting how irresponsible and ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.162
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 Foreword to Second Edition, p.xviii
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 Into Action, p.80
After the sermon, he quietly got up and made an explanation.


48.
  ... up, and nothing but good can come ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.111
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 Step Twelve, p.125
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 Bill's Story, p.15
On talking to a man there, I would be amazingly lifted up and set on my feet.


51.
  ... up as dreams of romance.  12&12 Step Six, p.67
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 Step Ten, p.93
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 Bill's Story, p.14
I felt lifted up, as though the great clean wind of a mountain top blew through and through.


54.
  ... up at a friend's house, in a ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.179
I remember nothing from then on until I woke up at a friend's house, in a town near home.


55.
  ... up, at least until they cause us ...  12&12 Step Six, p.67
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 Step Twelve, p.119
With clear understanding and right, grown-up attitudes, very happy results do follow.


57.
  ... up behind Walter.  BB Bill's Story, p.3
Liquor caught up with me much faster than I came up behind Walter.


58.
  ... up between you and your friends will ...  BB To Wives, p.115
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 A Vision For You, p.163
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 To Wives, p.114
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 Step Eleven, p.100
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 Step Ten, p.89
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 Tradition Six, p.155
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 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.


65.
  ... up during business hours.  BB To Employers, p.146
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 Step Five, p.62
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 Into Action, p.88
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 The Family Afterward, p.126
He is straining every nerve to make up for lost time.


69.
  ... up from the dry camp.  12&12 Tradition Six, p.158
The ink wouldn't be dry on the first ad before an awful shriek would go up from the dry camp.


70.
  ... up from the past.  BB Bill's Story, p.10
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 Step Twelve, p.119
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 More About Alcoholism, p.32
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 More About Alcoholism, p.39
He made up his mind to quit drinking altogether.


74.
  ... up his spirits.  BB A Vision For You, p.152
We know our friend is like a boy whistling in the dark to keep up his spirits.


75.
  ... up, I opened an office downtown.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.174
When those two years were up, I opened an office downtown.


76.
  ... up in a cheap hotel.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.144
In a neighboring state, Ed had holed up in a cheap hotel.


77.
  ... up in a law suit and bogged ...  BB A Vision For You, p.154
But his venture wound up in a law suit and bogged down completely.


78.
  ... up in A.A. and his new friends ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.118
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 More About Alcoholism, p.38
He shuts himself up in an asylum, hoping to mend his ways.


80.
  ... up in each city and hamlet, havens ...  BB A Vision For You, p.153
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 Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.177
I used also to put it up in four ounce bottles and stick several in my stocking tops.


82.
  ... up in him.  BB We Agnostics, p.57
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 Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.180
He knew all the answers, and certainly not because he had picked them up in his reading.


84.
  ... up in it?"  12&12 Tradition One, p.129
"Does this mean," some will anxiously ask, "that in A.A. the individual doesn't count for much? Is he to be dominated by his group and swallowed up in it?"


85.
  ... up in other communities."  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xv
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 A Vision For You, p.162
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 Step Twelve, p.108
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 Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.175
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 To Employers, p.139
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 Step Two, p.29
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 Step Three, p.37
Everywhere he sees people filled with anger and fear, society breaking up into warring fragments.


92.
  ... up into weeks, the weeks into months ...  BB Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.570
The days add up into weeks, the weeks into months and years."


93.
  ... up, just as much as the feeling ...  BB We Agnostics, p.55
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 Tradition Seven, p.164
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 There Is A Solution, p.20
Moderate drinkers have little trouble in giving up liquor entirely if they have good reason for it.


96.
  ... up many a fine chance to right ...  12&12 Step Nine, p.85
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 There Is A Solution, p.24
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 To Wives, p.109
It may be slowing him up mentally and physically, but he does not see it.


99.
  ... up more than one-fourth of the membership; ...  BB Foreword to Third Edition, p.xxii
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 To Employers, p.138
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 Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.173
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 More About Alcoholism, p.42
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 Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.179
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 A Vision For You, p.161
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 Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.176
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 Into Action, p.85
It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels.


107.
  ... up on them and become astonishingly difficult ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxviii
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 The Family Afterward, p.132
As non-denominational people, we cannot make up others' minds for them.


109.
  ... up our deep-lying inferiorities.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.123
We simply had to be number one people to cover up our deep-lying inferiorities.


110.
  ... up our hands in doubt and said, ...  BB We Agnostics, p.53
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 Tradition Twelve, p.187
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 Bill's Story, p.2
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 Into Action, p.82
He is like the farmer who came up out of his cyclone cellar to find his home ruined.


114.
  ... up out of my friends.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.138
Here was the true voice, welling up out of my friends.


115.
  ... up past misdeeds so they become a ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.124
It is possible to dig up past misdeeds so they become a blight, a veritable plague.


116.
  ... up people, we would have to put ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.116
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 Tradition Twelve, p.184
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 Tradition Six, p.156
Our uncompromising honesty might soon clean up politics.


119.
  ... up process is now going on.  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xx
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 Tradition Four, p.147
In imagination the gleaming center was to go up several stories more, but three would do for a start.


121.
  ... up sharply.  12&12 Step Eight, p.78
Right here we need to fetch ourselves up sharply.


122.
  ... up so disastrously before.  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.


123.
  ... up, something like half of us thought ...  BB We Agnostics, p.44
But cheer up, something like half of us thought we were atheists or agnostics.


124.
  ... up somewhere, or would stumble along to ...  BB Bill's Story, p.8
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 Tradition Seven, p.161
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 Into Action, p.79
Maybe we are divorced, and have remarried but haven't kept up the alimony to number one.


127.
  ... up the basic ideas in Akron or ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvii
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 Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.173
There I took up the business of drinking with much greater earnestness than I had previously shown.


129.
  ... up the deficiency.  BB The Family Afterward, p.131
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 A Vision For You, p.156
One day they called up the head nurse of a local hospital.


131.
  ... up the key of willingness.  12&12 Step Three, p.35
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 Tradition Six, p.156
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 Into Action, p.84
We vigorously commenced this way of living as we cleaned up the past.


134.
  ... up the root causes.  12&12 Step Four, pp.52-53
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 To Wives, p.116
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 There Is A Solution, p.25
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 Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.173
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 To Wives, p.111
Try to have him bring up the subject himself.


139.
  ... up their beds and walk again.  BB There Is A Solution, p.19
After such an approach many take up their beds and walk again.


140.
  ... up their heads and be like other ...  BB To Wives, p.105
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 To Employers, p.148
We hope our suggestions will help you plug up this sometimes serious leak.


142.
  ... up those feelings of inadequacy by bluffing, ...  12&12 Step Four, p.51
Did I try to cover up those feelings of inadequacy by bluffing, cheating, lying, or evading responsibility?


143.
  ... up to.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.113
These were problems of life which we could never face up to.


144.
  ... up to 2,000.  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xviii
By March 1941 the membership had shot up to 2,000.


145.
  ... up to another person.  12&12 Step Five, p.60
Somehow, being alone with God doesn't seem as embarrassing as facing up to another person.


146.
  ... up to final exams I went on ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.174
Coming up to final exams I went on a particularly strenuous spree.


147.
  ... up to four o'clock.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.177
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 Step Two, p.26
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 More About Alcoholism, p.38
Finally, he can no longer work, his wife gets a divorce and he is held up to ridicule.


150.
  ... up to that cherished vision.  BB To Wives, p.118
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 Step Three, p.38
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 Into Action, p.79
It would have been impressive heroics if he had walked up to the Judge and said, "Here I am."


153.
  ... up to the less violent aspects of ...  12&12 Step Six, p.66
But when we face up to the less violent aspects of these very same defects, then where do we stand?


154.
  ... up to the light.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.141
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 Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvi
He sobered, never to drink again up to the moment of his death in 1950.


156.
  ... up to the time you quit.  BB Working With Others, p.91
If he is not communicative, give him a sketch of your drinking career up to the time you quit.


157.
  ... up to them.  BB How It Works, p.69
We asked God to mold our ideals and help us to live up to them.


158.
  ... up to them even though we would ...  BB How It Works, p.62
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 Step Twelve, p.107
So let's consider briefly what we have been trying to do up to this point:


160.
  Up to this point you would label ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.37
Up to this point you would label him as a foolish chap having queer ideas of fun.


161.
  ... up topers could find needed care.  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.170
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 Step Three, p.38
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 Step Twelve, p.119
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 Foreword, p.18
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 Into Action, p.84
When these crop up, we ask God at once to remove them.


166.
  ... up, we ought to erase the hard-and-fast ...  12&12 Step Six, p.68
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 How It Works, p.64
First, we searched out the flaws in our make-up which caused our failure.


168.
  ... up with a bigger explosion then ever.  BB Working With Others, p.101
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 Working With Others, p.101
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 Step Twelve, p.123
They finally came up with a conclusion that shocked the A.A. members of that time.


171.
  ... up with a fifty-cent piece.  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.163
Still working on my prospect, I fumbled and came up with a fifty-cent piece.


172.
  ... up with a laugh and gone on ...  12&12 Tradition Four, p.149
It had picked itself up with a laugh and gone on to better things.


173.
  ... up with an old financial statement.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.136
Charlie fished in his desk and came up with an old financial statement.


174.
  ... up with anger, fear, frustration, or misunderstanding, ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.103
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 Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.178
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 Tradition Two, p.137
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 Bill's Story, p.4
But drinking caught up with me again and my generous friend had to let me go.


178.
  ... up with me much faster than I ...  BB Bill's Story, p.3
Liquor caught up with me much faster than I came up behind Walter.


179.
  ... up with some major calamity, and to ...  12&12 Step Two, p.31
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 Tradition Six, p.158
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 Tradition Five, p.153
"Thank heaven I came up with the right answer for that one.


182.
  ... up with women in a fashion we ...  BB Into Action, p.80
Perhaps we are mixed up with women in a fashion we wouldn't care to have advertised.


183.
  ... up yet."  12&12 Step Six, p.66
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 Step Six, p.69
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 Tradition Two, p.137
'We know how hard up you are, Bill.


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