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

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THREE   occurs   63 times 35 in BB  •  28 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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Click the page number or the book cover icon    to view that page in the literature.


1.
  ... three.  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvii
Their very first case, a desperate one, recovered immediately and became A.A. number three.


2.
  ... Three.  BB How It Works, p.63
We were now at Step Three.


3.
  ... Three.  12&12 Step Three, p.35
Every man and woman who has joined A.A. and intends to stick has, without realizing it, made a beginning on Step Three.


4.
  ... Three.  12&12 Step Three, p.40
Once we have come into agreement with these ideas, it is really easy to begin the practice of Step Three.


5.
  ... Three.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.142
A.A. had taken its first step in the formation of Tradition Three.


6.
  ... three absolutely blank books.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.174
I passed in at least three absolutely blank books.


7.
  ... three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may ...  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.563
Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided that, as a group, they have no other affiliation.


8.
  ... three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may ...  12&12 Tradition Four, p.146
So confident of this had we become that the original statement of A.A. tradition carried this significant sentence: "Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group provided that as a group they have no other affiliation."


9.
  ... three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may ...  12&12 Tradition Three (Long), p.189
Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided that, as a group, they have no other affiliation.


10.
  ... three alcoholics in that town, who now ...  BB A Vision For You, p.158
So, you see, there were three alcoholics in that town, who now felt they had to give to others what they had found, or be sunk.


11.
  ... three -- began to return as time passed.  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xx
But great numbers of these -- about two out of three -- began to return as time passed.


12.
  ... Three calls for affirmative action, for it ...  12&12 Step Three, p.34
Like all the remaining Steps, Step Three calls for affirmative action, for it is only by action that we can cut away the self-will which has always blocked the entry of God -- or, if you like, a Higher Power -- into our lives.


13.
  ... three corporations and became president of them ...  12&12 Tradition Four, p.148
To make things safer, the promoter organized three corporations and became president of them all.


14.
  ... three drinks -- no more!  BB A Vision For You, p.154
Perhaps he could handle, say, three drinks -- no more!


15.
  ... three drunks looked hungrily on from the ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.137
Arriving home, I found Lois cooking as usual, while three drunks looked hungrily on from the kitchen door.


16.
  ... three exceptional men lost to this world ...  BB To Employers, p.137
Here were three exceptional men lost to this world because I did not understand alcoholism as I do now.


17.
  ... three floors.  12&12 Tradition Four, p.148
Sometimes the swarming applicants would go for all three floors.


18.
  ... three, got to be routine.  BB Bill's Story, p.5
"Bathtub" gin, two bottles a day, and often three, got to be routine.


19.
  ... three groups.  12&12 Foreword, p.17
Even then it was hard to find twoscore of sure recoveries in all three groups.


20.
  ... three had succeeded with seven more.  BB A Vision For You, p.159
A year and six months later these three had succeeded with seven more.


21.
  ... three high hurdles, the course ahead began ...  12&12 Step Four, p.47
But once over the first two or three high hurdles, the course ahead began to look easier.


22.
  ... three huge volumes of a financial reference ...  BB Bill's Story, p.2
We gave up our positions and off we roared on a motorcycle, the sidecar stuffed with tent, blankets, a change of clothes, and three huge volumes of a financial reference service.


23.
  ... three husband, you may be in luck.  BB To Wives, p.113
If you have a number three husband, you may be in luck.


24.
  ... Three is given a determined and persistent ...  12&12 Step Three, p.40
Then it is explained that other Steps of the A.A. program can be practiced with success only when Step Three is given a determined and persistent trial.


25.
  ... Three is like opening of a locked ...  12&12 Contents (Step Three), p.5
Step Three is like opening of a locked door.


26.
  ... Three is like the opening of a ...  12&12 Step Three, p.34
Practicing Step Three is like the opening of a door which to all appearances is still closed and locked.


27.
  ... three(*) languages.  BB Foreword to Fourth Edition, p.xxiii
Currently, "Alcoholics Anonymous" has been translated into forty-three(*) languages.


28.
  ... three little mottoes which are apropos. Here ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.135
We have three little mottoes which are apropos. Here they are:


29.
  ... Three -- "Made a decision to turn our ...  12&12 Contents (Step Three), p.5
Step Three -- "Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood Him."


30.
  ... three months.  BB A Vision For You, p.159
He was there three months.


31.
  ... three-months leave of absence, has taken a ...  BB To Employers, p.138
He has just returned from a three-months leave of absence, has taken a cure, looks fine, and to clinch the matter, the board of directors told him this was his last chance."


32.
  ... Three opens the door.  12&12 Step Three, p.40
To make this increasingly possible is the purpose of A.A.'s Twelve Steps, and Step Three opens the door.


33.
  ... three or four months the goose hung ...  BB Bill's Story, p.7
For three or four months the goose hung high.


34.
  Three -- Our membership ought to include all ...  12&12 Tradition Three (Long), p.189
Three -- Our membership ought to include all who suffer from alcoholism.


35.
  ... three parts, under the same headings that ...  BB Preface, pp.xi-xii
"Bill's Story," "Doctor Bob's Nightmare," and one other personal history from the first edition were retained intact; three were edited and one of these was retitled; new versions of two stories were written, with new titles; thirty completely new stories were added; and the story section was divided into three parts, under the same headings that are used now.


36.
  ... three personal experiences.  BB There Is A Solution, p.29
These are followed by forty-three personal experiences.


37.
  ... three pertinent ideas:  BB How It Works, p.60
Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic, and our personal adventures before and after make clear three pertinent ideas:


38.
  ... Three represents our first attempt to do ...  12&12 Step Three, p.34
Step Three represents our first attempt to do this.


39.
  ... three sections of personal stories as follows.  BB Preface, p.xii
This fourth edition includes the Twelve Concepts for World Service and revises the three sections of personal stories as follows.


40.
  ... Three. See the Pioneer Section. This resulted ...  BB A Vision For You (Note), p.156
(*) This refers to Bill's and Dr. Bob's first visit to A.A. Number Three. See the Pioneer Section. This resulted in A.A.'s first group, at Akron, Ohio, in 1935.


41.
  ... three spoke in a very different voice.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.142
Then one of the three spoke in a very different voice.


42.
  ... three statements.  12&12 Step Two, p.26
Listen, if you will, to these three statements.


43.
  ... three successful groups emerged -- the first at ...  12&12 Foreword, p.16
After three years of trial and error in selecting the most workable tenets upon which the Society could be based, and after a large amount of failure in getting alcoholics to recover, three successful groups emerged -- the first at Akron, the second at New York, and the third at Cleveland.


44.
  ... "Three Talks to Medical Societies by Bill ...  BB Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.570
(This address is now available in pamphlet form at nominal cost through most A.A. groups or from Box 459, Grand Central Station, New York, NY 10163, under the title "Three Talks to Medical Societies by Bill W." -- formerly called "Bill on Alcoholism" and earlier "Alcoholism the Illness.")


45.
  Three -- The only requirement for A.A. membership ...  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.562
Three -- The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.


46.
  ... Three -- "The only requirement for A.A. membership ...  12&12 Contents (Tradition Three), p.10
Tradition Three -- "The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking."


47.
  Three: This husband has gone much further ...  BB To Wives, p.109
Three: This husband has gone much further than husband number two.


48.
  ... three times, I got drunk on the ...  BB A Vision For You, p.157
The last three times, I got drunk on the way home from here.


49.
  ... three visitors.  BB A Vision For You, p.159
He had three visitors.


50.
  ... Three, was simplicity itself.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.141
The answer, now seen in Tradition Three, was simplicity itself.


51.
  ... Three we turned our will and our ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.107
Consequently, in Step Three we turned our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.


52.
  ... three weeks; then I went to Atlantic ...  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.


53.
  ... three were edited and one of these ...  BB Preface, pp.xi-xii
"Bill's Story," "Doctor Bob's Nightmare," and one other personal history from the first edition were retained intact; three were edited and one of these was retitled; new versions of two stories were written, with new titles; thirty completely new stories were added; and the story section was divided into three parts, under the same headings that are used now.


54.
  ... three, where the alcoholic sickness is discussed ...  BB To Employers, p.140
If this presents difficulty, re-reading chapters two and three, where the alcoholic sickness is discussed at length might be worth while.


55.
  ... Three, which is that we decided to ...  BB How It Works, p.60
Being convinced, we were at Step Three, which is that we decided to turn our will and our life over to God as we understood Him.


56.
  ... three would do for a start.  12&12 Tradition Four, p.147
In imagination the gleaming center was to go up several stories more, but three would do for a start.


57.
  ... three years.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.173
I lost only a half day's work during these three years.


58.
  Three years ago, when my head doctor, ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.136
Three years ago, when my head doctor, Silkworth, began to tell me of the idea of helping drunks by spirituality, I thought it was crackpot stuff, but I've changed my mind.


59.
  ... three years, and this in the face ...  BB To Employers, p.138
I pointed out that I had had nothing to drink whatever for three years, and this in the face of difficulties that would have made nine out of ten men drink their heads off.


60.
  ... three years I spent in Boston, Chicago, ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.172
The next three years I spent in Boston, Chicago, and Montreal in the employ of a large manufacturing concern, selling railway supplies, gas engines of all sorts, and many other items of heavy hardware.


61.
  ... three years of this, I wound up ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.175
After three years of this, I wound up in the local hospital where they attempted to help me, but I would get my friends to smuggle me a quart, or I would steal the alcohol about the building, so that I got rapidly worse.


62.
  ... three years of trial and error in ...  12&12 Foreword, p.16
After three years of trial and error in selecting the most workable tenets upon which the Society could be based, and after a large amount of failure in getting alcoholics to recover, three successful groups emerged -- the first at Akron, the second at New York, and the third at Cleveland.


63.
  ... three years old, an event occurred demonstrating ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.135
When A.A. was only three years old, an event occurred demonstrating this principle.


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