Doesn't the world seem in a state of HOOROOSH?

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HOOROOSH [who-ROOSH] (noun)

An uproar, a great fuss

"What a hooroosh aloft there! I would e’en take it for sublime, did I not know that the colic is a noisy malady."
--Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851) (TWITO, page 68)