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

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BOTTLE   occurs   12 times 6 in BB  •  6 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
  ... bottle.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.32
Out came his carpet slippers and a bottle.


2.
  ... bottle.  12&12 Contents (Step Ten), p.8
Anger, resentments, jealously, envy, self-pity, hurt pride -- all led to the bottle.


3.
  ... bottle.  12&12 Step Ten, p.90
These emotional "dry benders" often led straight to the bottle.


4.
  ... bottle and extinction.  12&12 Step Four, p.45
This is not a moral inventory at all; it is the very process by which the depressive has so often been led to the bottle and extinction.


5.
  ... bottle and the blackout.  12&12 Tradition Six, p.156
We are all perfectionists who, failing perfection, have gone to the other extreme and settled for the bottle and the blackout.


6.
  ... bottle cut us down.  12&12 Step Four, p.45
No doubt we shall point with pride to the good lives we thought we led before the bottle cut us down.


7.
  ... bottle he misplaced the night before.  BB There Is A Solution, pp.21-22
Yet early next morning he searches madly for the bottle he misplaced the night before.


8.
  ... bottle of beer the next morning.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, pp.179-180
He came and got me home and to bed, gave me a few drinks that night, and one bottle of beer the next morning.


9.
  ... bottle of gin near the head of ...  BB Bill's Story, p.8
I wondered whether I dared hide a full bottle of gin near the head of our bed.


10.
  ... bottle of ginger ale before him?  BB A Vision For You, p.154
Of course he couldn't drink, but why not sit hopefully at a table, a bottle of ginger ale before him?


11.
  ... bottle of scotch and ruin everything!  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!


12.
  ... bottle was always our solution.  12&12 Step Seven, p.74
Escape via the bottle was always our solution.


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