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

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MEETING   occurs   25 times 10 in BB  •  15 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
See also...   meetings
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1.
  ... meeting.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.172
From childhood through high school I was more or less forced to go to church, Sunday School and evening service, Monday night Christian Endeavor and sometimes to Wednesday evening prayer meeting.


2.
  ... meeting.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.143
At length the time came for him to speak in a meeting.


3.
  ... meeting.  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.163
One night in 1948, the trustees of the Foundation were having their quarterly meeting.


4.
  ... meeting a man through his family.  BB Working With Others, p.91
When possible, avoid meeting a man through his family.


5.
  ... meeting and blow his top over an ...  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.


6.
  ... meeting, anywhere, A.A.'s share experience, strength, and ...  BB Foreword to Fourth Edition, p.xxiv
In any meeting, anywhere, A.A.'s share experience, strength, and hope with each other, in order to stay sober and help other alcoholics.


7.
  ... meeting between a well-known surgeon and a ...  12&12 Foreword, p.16
Alcoholics Anonymous began in 1935 at Akron, Ohio, as the outcome of a meeting between a well-known surgeon and a New York broker.


8.
  ... meeting in approximately 150 countries around the ...  BB Foreword to Fourth Edition, p.xxiii
Since the third edition was published in 1976, worldwide membership of A.A. has just about doubled, to an estimated two million or more, with nearly 100,800 groups meeting in approximately 150 countries around the world.


9.
  ... meeting in over 90 countries.  BB Foreword to Third Edition, p.xxii
By March 1976, when this edition went to the printer, the total worldwide membership of Alcoholics Anonymous was conservatively estimated at more than 1,000,000, with almost 28,000 groups meeting in over 90 countries.


10.
  ... meeting is an assurance that God will ...  12&12 Step Two, p.33
True humility and an open mind can lead us to faith, and every A.A. meeting is an assurance that God will restore us to sanity if we rightly relate ourselves to Him.


11.
  ... meeting night.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.137
"It was meeting night.


12.
  ... meeting of a national society of which ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.179
This dry spell lasted for about three weeks; then I went to Atlantic City to attend several days' meeting of a national society of which I was a member.


13.
  ... meeting of that year.  BB Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.570
The American Psychiatric Association requested, in 1949, that a paper be prepared by one of the older members of Alcoholics Anonymous to be read at the Association's annual meeting of that year.


14.
  ... meeting(*) of the Medical Society of the ...  BB Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.569
Following are excerpts from the comments of doctors present at the annual meeting(*) of the Medical Society of the State of New York where a paper on A.A. was read:


15.
  ... meeting, or perhaps after we have finished ...  12&12 Step Nine, pp.83-84
After coming from our first meeting, or perhaps after we have finished reading the book "Alcoholics Anonymous," we usually want to sit down with some member of the family and readily admit the damage we have done by our drinking.


16.
  ... meeting or to a single newcomer, it ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.166
When an A.A. talks for money, whether at a meeting or to a single newcomer, it can have a very bad effect on him, too.


17.
  ... meeting-place hat for group purposes.  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.160
It was soon apparent that while alcoholics would spend lavishly on Twelfth Step cases, they had a terrific aversion to dropping money into a meeting-place hat for group purposes.


18.
  ... meeting place, saying, "This is life for ...  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.173
Groups have tried to expel members, but the banished have come back to sit in the meeting place, saying, "This is life for us; you can't keep us out."


19.
  Meeting places cost something.  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.161
Meeting places cost something.


20.
  ... meeting, sweeping every member to a single ...  12&12 Tradition Three, p.143
A great wave of outraged resentment engulfed the meeting, sweeping every member to a single resolve: "Out he goes!"


21.
  ... meeting that night was at New York's ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.163
"The meeting that night was at New York's old 24th Street Clubhouse.


22.
  ... meeting that sometimes the good is the ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.138
'Bill, haven't you often said right here in this meeting that sometimes the good is the enemy of the best?


23.
  ... meeting to be attended by anyone or ...  BB A Vision For You, p.159
In addition to these casual get-togethers, it became customary to set apart one night a week for a meeting to be attended by anyone or everyone interested in a spiritual way of life.


24.
  ... meeting, we again try to carry A.A.'s ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.110
If our turn comes to speak at a meeting, we again try to carry A.A.'s message.


25.
  ... meeting with an alcoholic friend who had ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, pp.xv-xvi
Six months earlier, the broker had been relieved of his drink obsession by a sudden spiritual experience, following a meeting with an alcoholic friend who had been in contact with the Oxford Groups of that day.


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