Though theirs is the oldest such store in Bethlehem, the couple had only grim predictions for the season.

But his attention turned to population questions after he heard the grim predictions about an overpopulated planet.

"I don't need to see it," Jessie snapped, when his grim prediction proved to be true.

The report makes grim predictions about crises and threats at home and abroad.

There were grim but uncertain predictions that the death toll - in a 2,000-year-old city of 80,000 people - might keep growing.

But after the grim prediction, he apparently felt he could no longer afford to be prudish.

He also had a grim prediction for the future of the novel as a literary form.

What is the world to do in the face of these grim predictions?

But there are too many promising activists, programs and ideas hard at work here to warrant grim predictions.

But after spending 10 hours here, listening to grim predictions about crack in Europe, she was alarmed.