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But then again, the NFL seems to specialize in off-field rumpuses.

From Time • Jul. 28, 2015

As commander-in-chief of the rebels there emerged General "Lucky Juan" Alberto Barros, veteran of several Brazilian rumpuses.

From Time Magazine Archive

She intercepts a love letter, stirs up a series of rumpuses, and Mine Wesendonck agrees to flee with the musician.

From Time Magazine Archive

Middle-class flight, a shriveled tax base and the usual urban rumpuses encourage St. Louis authorities to hire S. Jammu, a woman related to Indira Gandhi, to run its police department.

From Time Magazine Archive

Under this homely term, you must know, he included all scenes, disturbances, rumpuses, passions; and expected all men, women, and things in Kent Villa to go smoothly—or go elsewhere.

From A Simpleton by Reade, Charles