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

worries
worry
worrying
WORSE   occurs   24 times 14 in BB  •  10 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
worship
worshiped
worshipfully

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1.
  ... worse.  BB Bill's Story, p.5
Gradually things got worse.


2.
  ... worse.  BB How It Works, p.68
When it made us cocky, it was worse.


3.
  ... worse.  BB To Wives, pp.109-110
Though once like number two he became worse.


4.
  ... worse.  BB The Family Afterward, pp.126-127
It is of little use to argue and only makes the impasse worse.


5.
  ... worse.  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.


6.
  ... worse.  12&12 Step Eight, p.80
At the time of these occurrences, they may actually have given our emotions violent twists which have since discolored our personalities and altered our lives for the worse.


7.
  ... worse by the things he does on ...  BB Into Action, p.73
The inconsistency is made worse by the things he does on his sprees.


8.
  ... worse, for we had learned that these ...  12&12 Step Twelve, pp.121-122
If our circumstances happened to be good, we no longer dreaded a change for the worse, for we had learned that these troubles could be turned into great values.


9.
  ... worse, he begins to use a combination ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.22
As matters grow worse, he begins to use a combination of high-powered sedative and liquor to quiet his nerves so he can go to work.


10.
  ... worse matters got.  BB How It Works, p.66
But the more we fought and tried to have our own way, the worse matters got.


11.
  ... worse mess of trying to live by ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.71
But we are sure that no class of people in the world ever made a worse mess of trying to live by this formula than alcoholics.


12.
  ... worse, money was only an urgent requirement ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.120
When our drinking had become much worse, money was only an urgent requirement which could supply us with the next drink and the temporary comfort of oblivion it brought.


13.
  ... worse, never better.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.30
Over any considerable period we get worse, never better.


14.
  ... worse relapse.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.31
In some instances there has been brief recovery, followed always by a still worse relapse.


15.
  ... worse stigmatized than alcoholism, you may not ...  12&12 Tradition Three, p.142
"But," he asked, "will you let me join your group? Since I am the victim of another addiction even worse stigmatized than alcoholism, you may not want me among you. Or will you?"


16.
  ... worse still, laughter.  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.173
He and all like him who "view with alarm for the good of A.A." meet the most stubborn resistance or, worse still, laughter.


17.
  ... worse than he realized.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.39
The doctor intimated strongly that he might be worse than he realized.


18.
  ... worse than other people.  BB Into Action, p.81
We doubt if, in this respect, alcoholics are fundamentally much worse than other people.


19.
  ... worse than the distant alcoholics who had ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.163
I who had boasted my generosity that morning was treating my own club worse than the distant alcoholics who had forgotten to send the Foundation their dollars.


20.
  ... worse than the last time.  12&12 Step Two, p.32
Following each, he not only drinks again, but acts worse than the last time.


21.
  ... worse than those of anyone else in ...  12&12 Step Four, p.46
They comfort the melancholy one by first showing him that his case is not strange or different, that his character defects are probably not more numerous or worse than those of anyone else in A.A.


22.
  ... worse that the boys in the fraternity ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.174
There my drinking became so much worse that the boys in the fraternity house where I lived felt forced to send for my father, who made a long journey in the vain endeavor to get me straightened around.


23.
  ... worse, the husband becomes a sick and ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.118
As matters get worse, the husband becomes a sick and irresponsible child who needs to be looked after and extricated from endless scrapes and impasses.


24.
  ... worse until sophomore spring when, after a ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.173
This went from bad to worse until sophomore spring when, after a prolonged period of drinking, I made up my mind that I could not complete my course, so I packed my grip and went South to spend a month on a large farm owned by a friend of mine.


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