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VAST   occurs   8 times 5 in BB  ●  3 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
  ... vast amount of fun about it all.  BB Bill's Story, p.16
There is, however, a vast amount of fun about it all.


2.
  ... vast change in feeling and outlook.  BB Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.567
Though it was not our intention to create such an impression, many alcoholics have nevertheless concluded that in order to recover they must acquire an immediate and overwhelming "God-consciousness" followed at once by a vast change in feeling and outlook.


3.
  ... vast enterprises which I would manage with ...  BB Bill's Story, p.1
My talent for leadership, I imagined, would place me at the head of vast enterprises which I would manage with the utmost assurance.


4.
  ... vast laws and forces at work.  BB Bill's Story, p.10
My intellectual heroes, the chemists, the astronomers, even the evolutionists, suggested vast laws and forces at work.


5.
  ... vast potential for the myriad other ills ...  BB Appendix IV, The Lasker Award, p.571
"The American Public Health Association presents a Lasker Group Award for 1951 to Alcoholics Anonymous in recognition of its unique and highly successful approach to that age-old public health and social problem, alcoholism ... In emphasizing alcoholism as an illness, the social stigma associated with this condition is being blotted out ... Historians may one day recognize Alcoholics Anonymous to have been a great venture in social pioneering which forged a new instrument for social action; a new therapy based on the kinship of common suffering; one having a vast potential for the myriad other ills of mankind."


6.
  ... vast process of trial and error which, ...  12&12 Tradition Four, p.146
These very deviations created a vast process of trial and error which, under the grace of God, has brought us to where we stand today.


7.
  ... vast sums of money to the notion ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.161
As A.A. emerged from its infancy into adolescence, we swung from the idea that we needed vast sums of money to the notion that A.A. shouldn't have any.


8.
  ... vast welter of explosive experience that A.A.'s ...  12&12 Foreword, p.18
It was out of this vast welter of explosive experience that A.A.'s Twelve Traditions took form and were first published in 1946 and later confirmed at A.A.'s First International Convention, held at Cleveland in 1950.


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