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

placing
plague
plagued
PLAIN   occurs   18 times 6 in BB  •  12 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
See also...   plains
plainly
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plane

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1.
  ... plain case of it.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.138
Well, this is a plain case of it.


2.
  ... plain crackpots, and fallen women were definitely ...  12&12 Tradition Three, p.140
So beggars, tramps, asylum inmates, prisoners, queers, plain crackpots, and fallen women were definitely out.


3.
  ... Plain Dealer articles about us ran that ...  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.186
Cleveland's Plain Dealer articles about us ran that town's membership from a few into hundreds overnight.


4.
  ... plain for everybody to see that each ...  12&12 Step Six, p.64
It is plain for everybody to see that each sober A.A. member has been granted a release from this very obstinate and potentially fatal obsession.


5.
  ... plain he is under no obligation to ...  BB Working With Others, p.94
Make it plain he is under no obligation to you, that you hope only that he will try to help other alcoholics when he escapes his own difficulties.


6.
  ... plain insanity.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.37
Whatever the precise definition of the word may be, we call this plain insanity.


7.
  ... plain line of cleavage could be seen ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.167
At last, however, a plain line of cleavage could be seen between professionalism and nonprofessionalism.


8.
  ... plain ordinary whoopee parties.  BB Working With Others, p.101
That includes bars, nightclubs, dances, receptions, weddings, even plain ordinary whoopee parties.


9.
  ... plain that a life which includes deep ...  BB How It Works, p.66
It is plain that a life which includes deep resentment leads only to futility and unhappiness.


10.
  ... plain that any expense will later be ...  BB To Employers, p.143
If you propose such a procedure to him, it may be necessary to advance the cost of treatment, but we believe it should be made plain that any expense will later be deducted from his pay.


11.
  ... plain that few of us can quickly ...  12&12 Step Six, p.68
Therefore, it seems plain that few of us can quickly or easily become ready to aim at spiritual and moral perfection; we want to settle for only as much perfection as will get us by in life, according, of course, to our various and sundry ideas of what will get us by.


12.
  ... plain that the grace of God will ...  12&12 Step Five, p.57
It seems plain that the grace of God will not enter to expel our destructive obsessions until we are willing to try this.


13.
  ... plain that the group must survive or ...  12&12 Tradition One, p.130
It becomes plain that the group must survive or the individual will not.


14.
  ... plain that they were sorely mistaken.  12&12 Step Five, p.60
How many times have we heard well-intentioned people claim the guidance of God when it was all too plain that they were sorely mistaken.


15.
  ... plain that we couldn't be a secret ...  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.185
Our growth made it plain that we couldn't be a secret society, but it was equally plain that we couldn't be a vaudeville circuit, either.


16.
  ... plain that we couldn't be a vaudeville ...  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.185
Our growth made it plain that we couldn't be a secret society, but it was equally plain that we couldn't be a vaudeville circuit, either.


17.
  ... plain to anyone.  12&12 Step Seven, p.76
The difference between a demand and a simple request is plain to anyone.


18.
  ... plain to him."  BB We Agnostics, p.47
But I cannot accept as surely true the many articles of faith which are so plain to him."


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