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1.
  ... work.  BB Bill's Story, p.8
My wife was at work.


2.
  ... work.  BB Bill's Story, p.10
My intellectual heroes, the chemists, the astronomers, even the evolutionists, suggested vast laws and forces at work.


3.
  ... work.  BB Bill's Story, p.15
It was fortunate, for my old business associates remained skeptical for a year and a half, during which I found little work.


4.
  ... work.  BB There Is A Solution, p.19
A few are fortunate enough to be so situated that they can give nearly all their time to the work.


5.
  ... work.  BB There Is A Solution, p.22
As matters grow worse, he begins to use a combination of high-powered sedative and liquor to quiet his nerves so he can go to work.


6.
  ... work.  BB We Agnostics, p.52
Our ideas did not work.


7.
  ... work.  BB How It Works, p.62
It didn't work.


8.
  ... work.  BB Into Action, p.87
Many of us have wasted a lot of time doing that and it doesn't work.


9.
  ... work.  BB Working With Others, p.99
If their old relationship is to be resumed it must be on a better basis, since the former did not work.


10.
  ... work.  BB To Wives, p.119
We find it a real mistake to dampen his enthusiasm for alcoholic work.


11.
  ... work.  BB A Vision For You, p.160
This couple has since become so fascinated that they have dedicated their home to the work.


12.
  ... work.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.173
When I got the fog out of my brain, I decided that quitting school was very foolish and that I had better return and continue my work.


13.
  ... work.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.176
Occasionally, I would yield to the morning craving, but if I did, it would be only a few hours before I would be quite unfit for work.


14.
  ... work.  12&12 Contents (Step Twelve), p.9
Kinds of Twelfth Step work.


15.
  ... work.  12&12 Contents (Step Twelve), p.9
Problems of Twelfth Step work.


16.
  ... work.  12&12 Contents (Tradition Four), p.10
An example: the "A.A. Center" that didn't work.


17.
  ... work.  12&12 Foreword, p.17
This present volume proposes to broaden and deepen the understanding of the Twelve Steps as first written in the earlier work.


18.
  ... work?  12&12 Step Three, p.37
This brave philosophy, wherein each man plays God, sounds good in the speaking, but it still has to meet the acid test: how well does it actually work?


19.
  ... work.  12&12 Step Ten, p.90
Before we ask what a spot-check inventory is, let's look at the kind of setting in which such an inventory can do its work.


20.
  ... work.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.110
Nor is this the only kind of Twelfth Step work.


21.
  ... work.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.110
Whether our audience is one or many, it is still Twelfth Step work.


22.
  ... work.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.110
There are many opportunities even for those of us who feel unable to speak at meetings or who are so situated that we cannot do much face-to-face Twelfth Step work.


23.
  ... work?  12&12 Step Twelve, p.112
Can we actually carry the A.A. spirit into our daily work?


24.
  ... work.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.112
We are sober and happy in our A.A. work.


25.
  ... work.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.142
Overjoyed, the newcomer plunged into Twelfth Step work.


26.
  ... work.  12&12 Tradition Five, p.151
"Restless one day, I felt I'd better do some Twelfth Step work.


27.
  ... work.  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.170
Yet not a single one of them had been hired to do A.A.'s Twelfth Step work.


28.
  ... work.  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.187
These experiences taught us that anonymity is real humility at work.


29.
  ... work against marriage partnership and compatible union.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.117
When alcoholism strikes, very unnatural situations may develop which work against marriage partnership and compatible union.


30.
  ... work against their own deepest instinct.  12&12 Step Six, p.64
They work against their own deepest instinct.


31.
  ... work almost frantically upon alcoholics arriving in ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvii
Hence the two men set to work almost frantically upon alcoholics arriving in the ward of the Akron City Hospital.


32.
  ... work, and even of their sleeping moments, ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxviii
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted and encouraged this movement.


33.
  ... work and live together.  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.178
They were just part and parcel of learning to work and live together.


34.
  ... work and paid-for services.  12&12 Contents (Tradition Eight), p.11
Line of cleavage between voluntary Twelfth Step work and paid-for services.


35.
  ... work and self-sacrifice for others, he could ...  BB Bill's Story, pp.14-15
For if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, he could not survive the certain trials and low spots ahead.


36.
  ... work and the chances it may afford ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.102
Perhaps we think of our day's work and the chances it may afford us to be useful and helpful, or of some special problem that it may bring.


37.
  ... work; and then he lowered the boom.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.143
He paid a fine tribute to the Fellowship; he told how his family had been reunited; he extolled the virtue of honesty; he recalled the joys of Twelfth Step work; and then he lowered the boom.


38.
  ... work as a salesman for the business ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.35
His family was re-assembled, and he began to work as a salesman for the business he had lost through drinking.


39.
  ... work as individuals in these wider fields.  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.171
We see that we have no right or need to discourage A.A.'s who wish to work as individuals in these wider fields.


40.
  ... work, as such, needed to be publicized.  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.186
Our work, as such, needed to be publicized.


41.
  ... work at Akron continued through the summer ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvii
This work at Akron continued through the summer of 1935.


42.
  ... work at it.  BB Into Action, p.86
It works, if we have the proper attitude and work at it.


43.
  ... work at it very hard, either.  12&12 Step Two, p.26
You won't have to work at it very hard, either.


44.
  ... Work better. Having a better time."  BB A Vision For You, p.151
Now and then a serious drinker, being dry at the moment says, "I don't miss it at all. Feel better. Work better. Having a better time."


45.
  ... work, but not its individual members.  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.182
Here was something rare in the world -- a society which said it wished to publicize its principles and its work, but not its individual members.


46.
  ... work during these three years.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.173
I lost only a half day's work during these three years.


47.
  ... work for.  12&12 Step Four, p.45
This being so, we think it logically follows that sobriety -- first, last, and all the time -- is the only thing we need to work for.


48.
  ... work for humility as something to be ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.73
To get completely away from our aversion to the idea of being humble, to gain a vision of humility as the avenue to true freedom of the human spirit, to be willing to work for humility as something to be desired for itself, takes most of us a long, long time.


49.
  ... work for me too."  BB Preface, p.xii
If you have a drinking problem, we hope that you may pause in reading one of the forty-two personal stories and think: "Yes, that happened to me"; or, more important, "Yes, I've felt like that"; or, most important, "Yes, I believe this program can work for me too."


50.
  ... work for something new which does?  BB We Agnostics, p.52
Is not our age characterized by the ease with which we discard old ideas for new, by the complete readiness with which we throw away the theory or gadget which does not work for something new which does?


51.
  ... work for them.  BB How It Works, p.70
We think of their needs and work for them.


52.
  ... work for them.  BB Into Action, p.84
They will always materialize if we work for them.


53.
  ... work for us.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.117
We A.A.'s cannot pretend to offer full answers to age-old perplexities, but our own experience does provide certain answers that work for us.


54.
  ... work for us.  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.166
We do not decry professionalism in other fields, but we accept the sober fact that it does not work for us.


55.
  ... work forms a group, another discovery is ...  12&12 Tradition One, p.130
The moment this Twelfth Step work forms a group, another discovery is made -- that most individuals cannot recover unless there is a group.


56.
  ... work full time, and you're broke.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.136
But you're giving this work full time, and you're broke.


57.
  ... work grudgingly and under half steam.  12&12 Step Four, p.49
We loaf and procrastinate, or at best work grudgingly and under half steam.


58.
  ... work hard and have a knack of ...  BB To Employers, pp.139-140
When sober, does he not work hard and have a knack of getting things done?


59.
  ... work hard and they play hard.  BB To Employers, p.146
They work hard and they play hard.


60.
  ... work hard at the elimination of the ...  12&12 Step Four, p.50
By now the newcomer has probably arrived at the following conclusions: that his character defects, representing instincts gone astray, have been the primary cause of his drinking and his failure at life; that unless he is now willing to work hard at the elimination of the worst of these defects, both sobriety and peace of mind will still elude him; that all the faulty foundation of his life will have to be torn out and built anew on bedrock.


61.
  ... work hard with no better motive than ...  12&12 Step Six, p.67
And how often we work hard with no better motive than to be secure and slothful later on -- only we call that "retiring."


62.
  ... work, has told us of his belief ...  BB A Vision For You, p.162
We are greatly indebted to the doctor in attendance there, for he, although it might prejudice his own work, has told us of his belief in ours.


63.
  ... work, he can do this with an ...  BB A Vision For You, p.162
Understanding our work, he can do this with an eye to selecting those who are willing and able to recover on a spiritual basis.


64.
  ... work, he would surely drink again, and ...  BB Bill's Story, p.15
If he did not work, he would surely drink again, and if he drank, he would surely die.


65.
  ... work, his wife gets a divorce and ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.38
Finally, he can no longer work, his wife gets a divorce and he is held up to ridicule.


66.
  ... work if I could only believe as ...  BB We Agnostics, p.47
I'm sure it would work if I could only believe as he believes.


67.
  ... work in a department store, coming home ...  BB Bill's Story, p.4
My wife began to work in a department store, coming home exhausted to find me drunk.


68.
  ... work in a human heart which had ...  BB Bill's Story, p.11
Here was something at work in a human heart which had done the impossible.


69.
  ... work in every department of our lives.  BB To Wives, p.116
Now we try to put spiritual principles to work in every department of our lives.


70.
  ... work in here?  12&12 Tradition Two, p.136
So why don't you move your work in here?


71.
  ... work in the very best sense of ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.110
This is Twelfth Step work in the very best sense of the word.


72.
  ... work in unity.  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.187
As we lay aside these very human aspirations, we believe that each of us takes part in the weaving of a protective mantle which covers our whole Society and under which we may grow and work in unity.


73.
  ... work is an avocation.  BB Foreword to First Edition, p.xiii
We would like it understood that our alcoholic work is an avocation.


74.
  ... work is my business.  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.173
Committees have instructed many an A.A. to stop working on a chronic backslider, only to be told: "How I do my Twelfth Step work is my business.


75.
  ... work is necessary to maintain his sobriety.  BB To Employers, p.146
This work is necessary to maintain his sobriety.


76.
  ... work is never paid for, but those ...  12&12 Contents (Tradition Eight), p.11
Twelfth Step work is never paid for, but those who labor in service for us are worthy of their hire.


77.
  ... work is never to be paid for.  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.565
But our usual A.A. "12 Step" work is never to be paid for.


78.
  ... work is never to be paid for.  12&12 Tradition Eight (Long), p.191
But our usual A.A. Twelfth Step work is never to be paid for.


79.
  ... work; it was to make Twelfth Step ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.168
The job was not to do Twelfth Step work; it was to make Twelfth Step work possible.


80.
  ... work like the devil and thank you ...  BB To Employers, p.149
He will work like the devil and thank you to his dying day.


81.
  ... work long beyond a reasonable period.  BB To Employers, p.137
Because of the employee's special ability, or of his own strong personal attachment to him, the employer has sometimes kept such a man at work long beyond a reasonable period.


82.
  ... work must be done.  BB The Family Afterward, p.130
That is where our fellow travelers are, and that is where our work must be done.


83.
  ... work, nor do we think its effectiveness ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.19
None of us makes a sole vocation of this work, nor do we think its effectiveness would be increased if we did.


84.
  ... work of a simple matter.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.40
I had no trouble refusing drinks, and began to wonder if I had not been making too hard work of a simple matter.


85.
  ... work of another alcoholic has accomplished in ...  BB To Wives, p.118
We do not like the thought that the contents of a book or the work of another alcoholic has accomplished in a few weeks that for which we struggled for years.


86.
  ... work of present-day staff members has no ...  12&12 Tradition Eight (Note), p.169
(*) The work of present-day staff members has no counterpart among the job categories of commercial organizations. These A.A.'s bring a wide range of business and professional experience to their service at The General Service Office.


87.
  ... work on.  12&12 Tradition Five, p.151
But first I'd have to find a drunk to work on.


88.
  ... work on a service plane, the alcoholic ...  BB Working With Others, p.98
The minute we put our work on a service plane, the alcoholic commences to rely upon our assistance rather than upon God.


89.
  ... work on alcohol.  12&12 Step Six, p.63
My own willpower just wouldn't work on alcohol.


90.
  ... work on them, he might have deprived ...  BB Working With Others, p.96
He often says that if he had continued to work on them, he might have deprived many others, who have since recovered, of their chance.


91.
  ... work on Tuesday morning.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.36
This is his story: "I came to work on Tuesday morning.


92.
  ... work, one alcoholic with another, was vital ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvii
It also indicated that strenuous work, one alcoholic with another, was vital to permanent recovery.


93.
  ... work only with the group.  12&12 Tradition Five, p.150
Every doctor concerned would at times wish he could devote himself to his chosen field rather than work only with the group.


94.
  ... work out.  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.181
Let's see how these two contrasting ideas -- attraction and promotion -- work out.


95.
  ... work out our solution on the spiritual ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvi
Though we work out our solution on the spiritual as well as an altruistic plane, we favor hospitalization for the alcoholic who is very jittery or befogged.


96.
  ... work-outs should be regarded as part of ...  BB To Wives, p.117
These work-outs should be regarded as part of your education, for thus you will be learning to live.


97.
  ... work possible.  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.168
The job was not to do Twelfth Step work; it was to make Twelfth Step work possible.


98.
  ... work possible, perhaps arranging for the coffee ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.110
We can be the ones who take on the unspectacular but important tasks that make good Twelfth Step work possible, perhaps arranging for the coffee and cake after the meetings, where so many skeptical, suspicious newcomers have found confidence and comfort in the laughter and talk.


99.
  ... work, shocked us.  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.184
The bare hint of publicity, even for our work, shocked us.


100.
  ... work sixteen hours a day.  BB To Employers, p.146
You may have to curb his desire to work sixteen hours a day.


101.
  ... work so well.  BB Working With Others, p.93
But he will be curious to learn why his own convictions have not worked and why yours seem to work so well.


102.
  ... work solid so far?  BB Into Action, p.75
Is our work solid so far?


103.
  ... work spreads and our numbers increase, we ...  BB To Employers, p.144
As our work spreads and our numbers increase, we hope your employees may be put in personal contact with some of us.


104.
  ... Work staff, says, "Alcoholics Anonymous is natural; ...  BB Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A., p.572
Edward Dowling, S.J.,(*) of the Queen's Work staff, says, "Alcoholics Anonymous is natural; it is natural at the point where nature comes closest to the supernatural, namely in humiliations and in consequent humility.


105.
  ... work the first nine Steps, we prepare ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.88
As we work the first nine Steps, we prepare ourselves for the adventure of a new life.


106.
  ... work to be restored financially, but he ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.123
Father knows he is to blame; it may take him many seasons of hard work to be restored financially, but he shouldn't be reproached.


107.
  ... work together?  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xviii
The test that it faced was this: Could these large numbers of erstwhile erratic alcoholics successfully meet and work together?


108.
  ... work together and hang together, else most ...  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
We alcoholics see that we must work together and hang together, else most of us will finally die alone.


109.
  ... work together as groups.  12&12 Contents (Tradition One), p.9
Tradition One -- "Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity." Without unity, A.A. dies. Individual liberty, yet great unity. Key to paradox: each A.A.'s life depends on obedience to spiritual principles. The group must survive or the individual will not. Common welfare comes first. How best to live and work together as groups.


110.
  ... work together as groups became the prime ...  12&12 Tradition One, p.130
So at the outset, how best to live and work together as groups became the prime question.


111.
  ... work together with harmony and good effect.  12&12 Foreword, p.18
But it was by no means sure that such great numbers of yet erratic people could live and work together with harmony and good effect.


112.
  ... work took me about Wall Street and ...  BB Bill's Story, p.2
My work took me about Wall Street and little by little I became interested in the market.


113.
  ... work toward ourselves.  12&12 Step Six, p.65
That is something we are supposed to be willing to work toward ourselves.


114.
  ... work twenty-four hours a day in and ...  BB Bill's Story, p.16
Faith has to work twenty-four hours a day in and through us, or we perish.


115.
  ... work we sometimes carry the message to ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.111
By a great deal of ardent Twelfth Step work we sometimes carry the message to so many alcoholics that they place us in a position of trust.


116.
  ... work, we stay lazy.  12&12 Step Four, p.49
And with genuine alarm at the prospect of work, we stay lazy.


117.
  ... work we were great successes or dismal ...  12&12 Step Four, p.47
We had to drink because at work we were great successes or dismal failures.


118.
  ... work well.  BB How It Works, p.63
Being all powerful, He provided what we needed, if we kept close to Him and performed His work well.


119.
  ... work where nothing else would.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.116
We found that dependence upon His perfect justice, forgiveness, and love was healthy, and that it would work where nothing else would.


120.
  ... work with another alcoholic instead!  BB Working With Others, p.102
But if you are shaky, you had better work with another alcoholic instead!


121.
  ... work with another alcoholic would save the ...  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.


122.
  ... work with other alcoholics.  BB Foreword to First Edition, p.xiv
We shall be interested to hear from those who are getting results from this book, particularly from those who have commenced work with other alcoholics.


123.
  ... work with other alcoholics.  BB Working With Others, p.89
Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics.


124.
  ... work with other alcoholics, he remains sober ...  BB Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.570
Learning to depend upon a higher power and absorb himself in his work with other alcoholics, he remains sober day by day.


125.
  ... work with other people to maintain his ...  BB To Wives, p.119
The fact is that he should work with other people to maintain his own sobriety.


126.
  ... work with others.  BB Bill's Story, p.14
They in turn might work with others.


127.
  ... work with others as he had worked ...  BB Bill's Story, p.14
Particularly was it imperative to work with others as he had worked with me.


128.
  ... work with the alcoholic who suffers could ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.166
Almost from the beginning, we have been positive that face-to-face work with the alcoholic who suffers could be based only on the desire to help and be helped.


129.
  ... work with you.  BB Working With Others, p.96
We find it a waste of time to keep chasing a man who cannot or will not work with you.


130.
  ... work would depend the answer for sufferers ...  12&12 Tradition Five, p.150
Alcoholics Anonymous can be likened to a group of physicians who might find a cure for cancer, and upon whose concerted work would depend the answer for sufferers of this disease.


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