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

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USED   occurs   29 times 23 in BB  •  6 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
  ... used.  BB To Wives, p.110
Some, but not all of us, think it has its advantages when reasonably used.


2.
  ... used a great deal more hard liquor ...  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.


3.
  ... used also to put it up in ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.177
I used also to put it up in four ounce bottles and stick several in my stocking tops.


4.
  ... used, because that looked too easy.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.176
The water tank on the toilet I never used, because that looked too easy.


5.
  ... used by Al-Anon Family Groups. Not a ...  12&12 Step Twelve (Note), p.118
(*) In adapted form, the Steps are also used by Al-Anon Family Groups. Not a part of A.A., this worldwide fellowship consists of spouses and other relatives or friends of alcoholics (in A.A. or still drinking). Its headquarters address is 1600 Corporate Landing Pkwy, Virginia Beach, VA 23454-5617.


6.
  ... used his own wrong-doing as a means ...  BB Into Action, p.80
He thus used his own wrong-doing as a means of destroying the reputation of another.


7.
  ... used lightly or selfishly nor to be ...  BB How It Works, p.69
We remembered always that our sex powers were God-given and therefore good, neither to be used lightly or selfishly nor to be despised and loathed.


8.
  ... used many times in this book which, ...  BB Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.567
The terms "spiritual experience" and "spiritual awakening" are used many times in this book which, upon careful reading, shows that the personality change sufficient to bring about recovery from alcoholism has manifested itself among us in many different forms.


9.
  ... used now.  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.


10.
  ... used our education to blow ourselves up ...  12&12 Step Two, p.29
We used our education to blow ourselves up into prideful balloons, though we were careful to hide this from others.


11.
  ... used our imagination.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.100
Perhaps our trouble was not that we used our imagination.


12.
  ... used our own conception, however limited it ...  BB We Agnostics, p.47
So we used our own conception, however limited it was.


13.
  ... used politically.  BB To Employers, p.145
But sometimes our drinking will be used politically.


14.
  ... used the incident as a basis for ...  BB Into Action, p.80
He subsequently denied having received the money and used the incident as a basis for discrediting the man.


15.
  ... used their shortcomings as a basis of ...  BB We Agnostics, p.50
Instead, we looked at the human defects of these people, and sometimes used their shortcomings as a basis of wholesale condemnation.


16.
  ... used to amuse ourselves by cynically dissecting ...  BB We Agnostics, p.49
We used to amuse ourselves by cynically dissecting spiritual beliefs and practices when we might have observed that many spiritually-minded persons of all races, colors, and creeds were demonstrating a degree of stability, happiness and usefulness which we should have sought ourselves.


17.
  ... used to baffle us.  BB Into Action, p.84
We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us.


18.
  ... used to be like, what happened, and ...  BB How It Works, p.58
Our stories disclose in a general way what we used to be like, what happened, and what we are like now.


19.
  ... used to be strong for the church, ...  BB A Vision For You, p.157
He interrupted: "I used to be strong for the church, but that won't fix it.


20.
  ... used to be the hunch or the ...  BB Into Action, p.87
What used to be the hunch or the occasional inspiration gradually becomes a working part of the mind.


21.
  ... used to bring on!  BB We Agnostics, p.54
What a state of mental goose-flesh that used to bring on!


22.
  ... used to get terribly upset when I ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.181
I used to get terribly upset when I saw my friends drink and knew I could not, but I schooled myself to believe that though I once had the same privilege, I had abused it so frightfully that it was withdrawn.


23.
  ... used to have before he drank so ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.126
They expect him to give them the nice times they used to have before he drank so much, and to show his contrition for what they suffered.


24.
  ... used to have no reasonable conception whatever.  BB We Agnostics, p.49
Actually, we used to have no reasonable conception whatever.


25.
  ... used to make back in the 1920's.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.136
Handing it to me, he continued, 'This shows the kind of money the hospital used to make back in the 1920's.


26.
  ... used to promise my wife, my friends, ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.177
I used to promise my wife, my friends, and my children that I would drink no more -- promises which seldom kept me sober even through the day, though I was very sincere when I made them.


27.
  ... used to put eight or twelve ounce ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.176
I used to put eight or twelve ounce bottles of alcohol in a fur lined glove and toss it onto the back airing porch when winter days got dark enough.


28.
  ... used to set by imagination as it ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.100
When such thoughts break in, we might recall, a little ruefully, how much store we used to set by imagination as it tried to create reality out of bottles.


29.
  ... used to that quite quickly.  12&12 Step Five, pp.59-60
Though we may at first be startled to realize that God knows all about us, we are apt to get used to that quite quickly.


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