"head" in the Big Book

My talent for leadership, I imagined, would place me at the head of vast enterprises which I would manage with the utmost assurance.

As the whisky rose to my head I told myself I would manage better next time, but I might as well get good and drunk then.

I wondered whether I dared hide a full bottle of gin near the head of our bed.

Finally he shook his head saying, “Something has happened to you I don’t understand.

He uses his gifts to build up a bright outlook for his family and himself, and then pulls the structure down on his head by a senseless series of sprees.

They sound like the philosophy of the man who, having a headache, beats himself on the head with a hammer so that he can’t feel the ache.

He tries every known means to get the jaywalking idea out of his head.

He had commenced our way of life, had secured a position, and was getting his head above water.

Should they accept and practice spiritual principles, there is a much better chance that the head of the family will recover.

An alcoholic of this temperament may be quick to use this chapter as a club over your head.

But the head of the house has spent years in pulling down the structures of business, romance, friendship, health—these things are now ruined or damaged.

The head of the house ought to remember that he is mainly to blame for what befell his home.

Though the family does not fully agree with dad’s spiritual activities, they should let him have his head.

They can hardly fail to approve these simple principles, though the head of the house still fails somewhat in practicing them.

Liquor incapacitated father for so many years that mother became head of the house.

Of an evening, you can go on a mild bender, get up in the morning, shake your head and go to business.

He will appreciate knowing you are not bothering your head about him,

One day they called up the head nurse of a local hospital.

Goes off his head completely when he’s drinking.