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

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FOUR   occurs   29 times 16 in BB  •  13 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
  ... Four.  BB How It Works, p.64
This was Step Four.


2.
  ... four.  BB A Vision For You, p.156
As we shall see, he now means a great deal to his community, and the major liabilities of thirty years of hard drinking have been repaired in four.


3.
  ... Four.  12&12 Step Four, p.46
They can do this, for they are the carriers of A.A.'s tested experience with Step Four.


4.
  ... Four.  12&12 Step Four, p.50
These are the first fruits of Step Four.


5.
  ... Four an A.A. group had exercised its ...  12&12 Tradition Four, p.149
Thus it was that under Tradition Four an A.A. group had exercised its right to be wrong.


6.
  ... Four back and forth over our careers, ...  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.


7.
  ... four categories:  BB To Wives, p.108
The problem with which you struggle usually falls within one of four categories:


8.
  Four days before he had hanged himself ...  BB To Employers, p.137
Four days before he had hanged himself in his woodshed.


9.
  Four -- Each group should be autonomous except ...  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.562
Four -- Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or A.A. as a whole.


10.
  ... Four -- "Each group should be autonomous except ...  12&12 Contents (Tradition Four), p.10
Tradition Four -- "Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or A.A. as a whole."


11.
  ... Four Horsemen -- Terror, Bewilderment, Frustration, Despair.  BB A Vision For You, p.151
Momentarily we did -- then would come oblivion and the awful awakening to face the hideous Four Horsemen -- Terror, Bewilderment, Frustration, Despair.


12.
  ... four hours a day in and through ...  BB Bill's Story, p.16
Faith has to work twenty-four hours a day in and through us, or we perish.


13.
  ... four hours ahead.  BB Into Action, p.86
On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead.


14.
  ... Four is an effort to discover our ...  12&12 Contents (Step Four), p.6
Step Four is an effort to discover our liabilities.


15.
  ... Four is beginning of lifetime practice.  12&12 Contents (Step Four), p.6
Step Four is beginning of lifetime practice.


16.
  ... Four is but the beginning of a ...  12&12 Step Four, p.50
Since Step Four is but the beginning of a lifetime practice, it can be suggested that he first have a look at those personal flaws which are acutely troublesome and fairly obvious.


17.
  ... Four is our vigorous and painstaking effort ...  12&12 Step Four, p.42
Step Four is our vigorous and painstaking effort to discover what these liabilities in each of us have been, and are.


18.
  ... Four -- "Made a searching and fearless moral ...  12&12 Contents (Step Four), p.6
Step Four -- "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves."


19.
  ... four months the goose hung high.  BB Bill's Story, p.7
For three or four months the goose hung high.


20.
  ... 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.


21.
  ... four ounce bottles and stick several in ...  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.


22.
  ... four reasons:  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.180
I do it for four reasons:


23.
  ... Four was, after all, only a look.  12&12 Step Five, p.58
The objective look at ourselves we achieved in Step Four was, after all, only a look.


24.
  ... Four, we commenced to search out the ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.107
Beginning with Step Four, we commenced to search out the things in ourselves which had brought us to physical, moral, and spiritual bankruptcy.


25.
  Four -- With respect to its own affairs, ...  12&12 Tradition Four (Long), p.189
Four -- With respect to its own affairs, each A.A. group should be responsible to no other authority than its own conscience.


26.
  ... four years.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.33
Though a robust man at retirement, he went to pieces quickly and was dead within four years.


27.
  ... four years have passed.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.180
As I write, nearly four years have passed.


28.
  ... four years in one of the best ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.172
After high school came four years in one of the best colleges in the country where drinking seemed to be a major extra-curricular activity.


29.
  Four: You may have a husband of ...  BB To Wives, p.110
Four: You may have a husband of whom you completely despair.


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