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

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HARD   occurs   51 times 26 in BB  •  25 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
  ... hard.  BB Bill's Story, p.10
They made me swallow hard.


2.
  ... hard.  BB Bill's Story, p.12
That statement hit me hard.


3.
  ... hard.  BB To Employers, p.146
They work hard and they play hard.


4.
  ... hard and failed, we may chalk that ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.93
Even when we have tried hard and failed, we may chalk that up as one of the greatest credits of all.


5.
  ... hard-and-fast lines that we have drawn.  12&12 Step Six, p.68
Looking again at those defects we are still unwilling to give up, we ought to erase the hard-and-fast lines that we have drawn.


6.
  ... hard and have a knack of getting ...  BB To Employers, pp.139-140
When sober, does he not work hard and have a knack of getting things done?


7.
  ... hard and they play hard.  BB To Employers, p.146
They work hard and they play hard.


8.
  ... hard at the elimination of the worst ...  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.


9.
  ... hard drinker.  BB There Is A Solution, p.20
Then we have a certain type of hard drinker.


10.
  ... hard drinker, a moderate drinker or a ...  BB To Employers, p.139
Whether you are a hard drinker, a moderate drinker or a teetotaler, you may have some pretty strong opinions, perhaps prejudices.


11.
  ... hard drinker; but at some stage of ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.21
He may start off as a moderate drinker; he may or may not become a continuous hard drinker; but at some stage of his drinking career he begins to lose all control of his liquor consumption, once he starts to drink.


12.
  ... hard drinkers ought to slow down, and ...  12&12 Tradition Six, p.157
They wanted to say that liquor should be enjoyed, not misused; hard drinkers ought to slow down, and problem drinkers -- alcoholics -- should not drink at all.


13.
  ... hard drinking have been repaired in 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.


14.
  ... hard, either.  12&12 Step Two, p.26
You won't have to work at it very hard, either.


15.
  ... hard enough and long enough to drink ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.31
Heaven knows, we have tried hard enough and long enough to drink like other people!


16.
  ... hard, even impossible.  12&12 Step Three, p.35
To every worldly and practical-minded beginner, this Step looks hard, even impossible.


17.
  ... hard feeling and controversy.  BB A Vision For You, p.154
The proceeding was shot through with much hard feeling and controversy.


18.
  ... hard feeling toward him.  BB To Employers, p.142
If possible express a lack of hard feeling toward him.


19.
  ... hard is a heartbreaking riddle.  12&12 Step Two, p.32
To clergymen, doctors, friends, and families, the alcoholic who means well and tries hard is a heartbreaking riddle.


20.
  ... hard knocks to learn this truth: Job ...  BB Working With Others, p.98
Some of us have taken very hard knocks to learn this truth: Job or no job -- wife or no wife -- we simply do not stop drinking so long as we place dependence upon other people ahead of dependence on God.


21.
  ... hard lesson that overdependence upon people is ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.115
We had refused to learn the very hard lesson that overdependence upon people is unsuccessful because all people are fallible, and even the best of them will sometimes let us down, especially when our demands for attention become unreasonable.


22.
  ... hard liquor than in former years.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.174
This had little effect however for I kept on drinking and used a great deal more hard liquor than in former years.


23.
  ... hard on ourself, but always considerate of ...  BB Into Action, p.74
The rule is we must be hard on ourself, but always considerate of others.


24.
  ... hard on the hopelessness of the drunk's ...  12&12 Tradition Five, p.152
I bore down hard on the hopelessness of the drunk's dilemma.


25.
  ... hard or times were good.  12&12 Step Four, pp.46-47
We had to drink because times were hard or times were good.


26.
  ... hard question, but practically speaking, it isn't.  12&12 Step Six, p.68
This sounds like a hard question, but practically speaking, it isn't.


27.
  ... hard stuff."  BB There Is A Solution, p.20
"Lay off the hard stuff."


28.
  ... hard terms with those who seek Him.  BB We Agnostics, p.46
We found that God does not make too hard terms with those who seek Him.


29.
  ... hard thought.  BB Bill's Story, p.6
That was a hard thought.


30.
  ... hard times which will befall you and ...  BB To Wives, p.116
You may be afraid your husband will lose his position; you are thinking of the disgrace and hard times which will befall you and the children.


31.
  ... hard to bear.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.115
Our disillusionment had been hard to bear.


32.
  ... hard to do.  12&12 Step Eight, p.81
To put a finger on the nearby and most deeply damaged ones shouldn't be hard to do.


33.
  ... hard to find twoscore of sure recoveries ...  12&12 Foreword, p.17
Even then it was hard to find twoscore of sure recoveries in all three groups.


34.
  ... hard to live with.  12&12 Step Nine, p.84
Almost always we want to go further and admit other defects that have made us hard to live with.


35.
  ... hard to match.  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.182
Ever since, these friends have reported A.A. with an enthusiasm which the most ardent members would find hard to match.


36.
  ... hard to re-establish friendly relations with his ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.134
The alcoholic may find it hard to re-establish friendly relations with his children.


37.
  ... hard to see and understand.  12&12 Step Ten, p.94
In most cases our motives won't be hard to see and understand.


38.
  ... hard to seek them out.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.120
Yes -- whenever they try hard to seek them out.


39.
  ... hard to swallow.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.42
Though I had been only a nominal churchman, their proposals were not, intellectually, hard to swallow.


40.
  ... hard to take.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.111
Here again we are presented with the temptation to overmanage things, and sometimes this results in rebuffs and other consequences which are hard to take.


41.
  ... hard to understand.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.106
And these things which they have in common are not too hard to understand.


42.
  ... hard up.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.136
'Bill,' he said, 'I think it's a shame that you are financially so hard up.


43.
  ... hard up just then; the groups weren't ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.164
The Foundation was really hard up just then; the groups weren't sending in enough for the support of the office; we had been tossing in all the book income and even that hadn't been enough.


44.
  ... hard up you are, Bill.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.137
'We know how hard up you are, Bill.


45.
  ... hard way.  BB To Wives, p.121
We had to learn these things the hard way.


46.
  ... hard way.  12&12 Step Ten, p.88
We alcoholics have learned this the hard way.


47.
  ... hard with many alcoholics on the theory ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvi
Prior to his journey to Akron, the broker had worked hard with many alcoholics on the theory that only an alcoholic could help an alcoholic, but he had succeeded only in keeping sober himself.


48.
  ... hard with no better motive than to ...  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."


49.
  ... hard 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.


50.
  ... hard work to be restored financially, but ...  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.


51.
  ... hard you try.  BB To Wives, p.111
You may be unable to do so, no matter how hard you try.


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