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

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FIVE   occurs   32 times 11 in BB  •  21 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
  ... five.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.35
He did no drinking until he was thirty-five.


2.
  ... Five?  12&12 Contents (Step Five), p.6
What do we receive from Step Five?


3.
  ... Five.  12&12 Step Five, p.55
When it comes to ego deflation, few Steps are harder to take than Five.


4.
  ... Five.  12&12 Step Five, p.55
So intense, though, is our fear and reluctance to do this, that many A.A.'s at first try to bypass Step Five.


5.
  ... Five.  12&12 Step Five, p.56
Few muddled attitudes have caused us more trouble than holding back on Step Five.


6.
  ... Five?  12&12 Step Five, p.57
What are we likely to receive from Step Five?


7.
  ... Five.  12&12 Step Five, p.58
More realism and therefore more honesty about ourselves are the great gains we make under the influence of Step Five.


8.
  ... Five -- "Admitted to God, to ourselves, and ...  12&12 Contents (Step Five), p.6
Step Five -- "Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs."


9.
  ... five, after a successful and happy business ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.32
An exceptional man, he remained bone dry for twenty-five years and retired at the age of fifty-five, after a successful and happy business career.


10.
  ... five-dollar bill.  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.162
I motioned him to my inside cubicle and produced a five-dollar bill.


11.
  ... five-dollar gift to the slippee was an ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.163
I realized that my five-dollar gift to the slippee was an ego-feeding proposition, bad for him and bad for me.


12.
  ... five-dollar investment to fix a hangover.  12&12 Tradition Seven, pp.162-163
I felt especially virtuous as I thought of all the ex-drunks who wouldn't even send the Foundation a dollar apiece, and here I was gladly making a five-dollar investment to fix a hangover.


13.
  ... five dollars' worth of needed postage stamps.  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.177
A corporation director who had just voted a company expenditure of a hundred thousand dollars would appear at an A.A. business meeting and blow his top over an outlay of twenty-five dollars' worth of needed postage stamps.


14.
  Five -- Each Alcoholics Anonymous group ought to ...  12&12 Tradition Five (Long), p.190
Five -- Each Alcoholics Anonymous group ought to be a spiritual entity having but one primary purpose -- that of carrying its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.


15.
  Five -- Each group has but one primary ...  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.562
Five -- Each group has but one primary purpose -- to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.


16.
  ... Five -- "Each group has but one primary ...  12&12 Contents (Tradition Five), p.10
Tradition Five -- "Each group has but one primary purpose -- to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers."


17.
  ... five hours after the market closed.  BB Bill's Story, p.4
It was eight o'clock -- five hours after the market closed.


18.
  ... Five is difficult but necessary to sobriety ...  12&12 Contents (Step Five), p.6
Step Five is difficult but necessary to sobriety and peace of mind.


19.
  ... five new ones were added.  BB Preface, p.xii
In Part III ("They Lost Nearly All"), eight stories were retained; five new ones were added.


20.
  ... five normal salesmen.  BB To Employers, pp.149-150
There are two alcoholic employees, who produce as much as five normal salesmen.


21.
  ... five o'clock and it was eleven fifteen ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.179
We entered her house at exactly five o'clock and it was eleven fifteen when we left.


22.
  ... five proposals we ask if we have ...  BB Into Action, p.75
Carefully reading the first five proposals we ask if we have omitted anything, for we are building an arch through which we shall walk a free man at last.


23.
  ... five short words have been running through ...  12&12 Tradition Three, p.142
As we've been talking, five short words have been running through my mind.


24.
  ... five syllables.  12&12 Step Six, p.67
Consider, too, our talents for procrastination, which is really sloth in five syllables.


25.
  ... Five that he first actually felt the ...  12&12 Step Five, p.62
Many an A.A., once agnostic or atheistic, tells us that it was during this stage of Step Five that he first actually felt the presence of God.


26.
  ... Five that we inwardly knew we'd be ...  12&12 Step Five, p.58
Our moral inventory had persuaded us that all-round forgiveness was desirable, but it was only when we resolutely tackled Step Five that we inwardly knew we'd be able to receive forgiveness and give it, too.


27.
  ... five thousand dollars to do with what ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.161
One A.A. group was given five thousand dollars to do with what it would.


28.
  ... Five was the answer.  12&12 Step Five, p.57
Step Five was the answer.


29.
  ... Five, we decided that an inventory, taken ...  12&12 Step Twelve, pp.107-108
Looking at Step Five, we decided that an inventory, taken alone, wouldn't be enough.


30.
  ... five years and retired at the age ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.32
An exceptional man, he remained bone dry for twenty-five years and retired at the age of fifty-five, after a successful and happy business career.


31.
  ... five years found he was just where ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.33
But here is a man who at fifty-five years found he was just where he had left off at thirty.


32.
  ... five years, or hardly draw a sober ...  BB Bill's Story, p.4
Mercifully, no one could guess that I was to have no real employment for five years, or hardly draw a sober breath.


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