"place" 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.

An all night place supplied me with a dozen glasses of ale.

I have seen men come out of asylums and resume a vital place in the lives of their families and communities.

In the doctor’s judgment he was utterly hopeless; he could never regain his position in society and he would have to place himself under lock and key or hire a bodyguard if he expected to live long.

On the way I felt hungry so I stopped at a roadside place where they have a bar.

I also had the notion that I might find a customer for a car at this place, which was familiar for I had been going to it for years.

I now remembered what my alcoholic friends had told me, how they prophesied that if I had an alcoholic mind, the time and place would come—I would drink

Thus was our friend’s cornerstone fixed in place.

Returning home we find a place where we can be quiet for an hour, carefully reviewing what we have done.

Are the stones properly in place?

He saw that he had to place the outcome in God’s hands or he would soon start drinking again, and all would be lost anyhow.

You need this information to put yourself in his place, to see how you would like him to approach you if the tables were turned.

You might place this book where he can see it in the interval.

Suggest how important it is that he place the welfare of other people ahead of his own.

Some of us have taken very hard knocks to learn this truth: Job or no job—wife or no wife—we simply do not stop drinking so long as we place dependence upon other people ahead of dependence on God.

His only chance for sobriety would be some place like the Greenland Ice Cap, and even there an Eskimo might turn up with a bottle of scotch and ruin everything!

So our rule is not to avoid a place where there is drinking, if we have a legitimate reason for being there.

Therefore, ask yourself on each occasion, “Have I any good social, business, or personal reason for going to this place?

At a proper time and place explain to all your friends why alcohol disagrees with you.

Your job now is to be at the place where you may be of maximum helpfulness to others, so never hesitate to go anywhere if you can be helpful.

Attempt instead, to put yourself in his place.

If a repetition is to be prevented, place the problem, along with everything else, in God’s hands.

Although financial recovery is on the way for many of us, we found we could not place money first.

When we see a man sinking into the mire that is alcoholism, we give him first aid and place what we have at his disposal.

We all had to place recovery above everything, for without recovery we would have lost both home and business.

He will be at the jumping-off place.

If you live in a large place, there are hundreds.

Bitterly discouraged, he found himself in a strange place, discredited and almost broke.

They were willing, by day or night, to place a new man in the hospital and visit him afterward.

Aside from fellowship and sociability, the prime object was to provide a time and place where new people might bring their problems.

The expression on the faces of the women, that indefinable something in the eyes of the men, the stimulating and electric atmosphere of the place, conspired to let him know that here was haven at last.

Being a large place, we think that some day its Fellowship will number many hundreds.* But life among Alcoholics Anonymous is more than attending gatherings and visiting hospitals.

Under only slightly different conditions, the same thing is taking place in many eastern cities.

He had lived there but a few weeks when he found that the place probably contained more alcoholics per square mile than any city in the country.