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

despair
despaired
despairing
DESPERATE   occurs   10 times 6 in BB  •  4 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
desperately
desperation
despised

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1.
  ... desperate alcoholics tried A.A., but did not ...  12&12 Step One, p.23
Many less desperate alcoholics tried A.A., but did not succeed because they could not make the admission of hopelessness.


2.
  ... desperate case, and that above all he ...  12&12 Tradition Three, p.142
He soon proved that his was a desperate case, and that above all he wanted to get well.


3.
  ... desperate cases could swallow and digest this ...  12&12 Step One, p.22
In A.A.'s pioneering time, none but the most desperate cases could swallow and digest this unpalatable truth.


4.
  ... desperate condition, brought to me.  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxxi
He was rescued by a searching party, and, in desperate condition, brought to me.


5.
  ... desperate desire to stop, but saw no ...  BB A Vision For You, p.155
He had a desperate desire to stop, but saw no way out, for he had earnestly tried many avenues of escape.


6.
  ... desperate desire to stop was explained.  BB Bill's Story, p.7
My incredible behavior in the face of a desperate desire to stop was explained.


7.
  ... desperate enough to accept with eagerness what ...  BB Working With Others, p.96
You are sure to find someone desperate enough to accept with eagerness what you offer.


8.
  ... desperate experiment of the first drink?  BB More About Alcoholism, p.35
What sort of thinking dominates an alcoholic who repeats time after time the desperate experiment of the first drink?


9.
  ... desperate one, recovered immediately and became A.A. ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvii
Their very first case, a desperate one, recovered immediately and became A.A. number three.


10.
  ... desperate ones, too.  12&12 Step Three, p.36
Silently and surely, electricity, that strange energy so few people understand, meets our simplest daily needs, and our most desperate ones, too.


The 164 and More™ Book, eBook, and Web Site are all CONCORDANCES which display passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous, the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, and the A.A. Grapevine (A.A. Preamble only).  Sorting and rendering passages in the proprietary format of the 164 and More concordance does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Inc., or the A.A. Grapevine, Inc.  Further A.A.W.S. Inc. and the A.A. Grapevine Inc. have no objection to the use of this material in the 164 and More concordance.

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