fracas

melu, meteli, rähäkkä, rytäkkä A noisy disorderly quarrel, fight, brawl, disturbance or scrap.
1989, w:Kazuo Ishiguro|Kazuo Ishiguro, w:The Remains of the Day|The Remains of the Day, Faber 1999, paperback edition, p. 16,

And I recall also some years ago, Mr Rayne, who travelled to America as valet to Sir Reginals Mauvis, remarking that a taxi driver in New York regularly addressed his fare in a manner which if repeated in London would end in some sort of fracas, if not in the fellow being frogmarched to the nearest police station.

The Oregon-Northern California region had lost much of its population during the fracas of 1980; it had been heavily hit by Red Chinese guided missiles, and of course the clouds of fallout had blanketed it in the subsequent decade.