"making" in the Big Book

W ar fever ran high in the New England town to which we new, young officers from Plattsburg were assigned, and we were flattered when the first citizens took us to their homes, making us feel heroic.

That the man who is making the approach has had the same difficulty, that he obviously knows what he is talking about, that his whole deportment shouts at the new prospect that he is a man with a real answer, that he has no attitude of Holier Than Thou, nothing whatever except the sincere desire to be helpful; that there are no fees to pay, no axes to grind, no people to please, no lectures to be endured—these are the condi­

Physicians who are familiar with alcoholism agree there is no such thing as making a normal drinker out of an alcoholic.

He tried to regulate his drinking for a while, making several trips to the hospital meantime.

Some will be drunk the day after making their resolutions; most of them within a few weeks.

I had no trouble refusing drinks, and began to wonder if I had not been making too hard work of a simple matter.

fused and baffled by the seeming futility of existence, they show the underlying reasons why they were making heavy going of life.

So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making.

May I do Thy will always!’’ We thought well before taking this step making sure we were ready; that we could at last abandon ourselves utterly to Him.

But he is yet a long way from making good to the wife or parents whom for years he has so shockingly treated.

After making our review we ask God’s forgiveness and inquire what corrective measures should be taken.

Suppose now you are making your second visit to a man.

You will be making it possible for him to be insincere.

After all, our problems were of our own making.

Nothing will help the man who is off on a spiritual tangent so much as the wife who adopts a sane spiritual program, making a better practical use of it.

One instance comes to mind in which a malicious individual was always making friendly little jokes about an alcoholic’s drinking exploits.

He entered a political campaign, making speeches, frequenting men’s gathering places of all sorts, often staying up all night.