1.   Less than a minute later noise erupted from the drawing room and excited voices drifted down the hall.

2.   The excited voice on the other end of the phone was calling from near Belle Fourche, S.D. Bakker felt skepticism rising.

3.   The train sounds mix with the excited voices of grown men playing railroad engineer on a Saturday morning.

4.   Men seeking licenses to run buses crowd into a small dingy room filled with mountains of yellowing files and point accusing fingers while arguing in excited voices.