Word: raucous
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...behavior become so vile? Practice. In cities like Boston, New York and Philadelphia, fans are notorious for their raucous behavior. Emotions in Yankees-Red Sox games get so high that during the closing innings of the sixth game of this year's play-offs, when police had to ring the field, veteran fans scarcely batted an eye. In Philadelphia, fans frustrated by the team's awful play once famously booed Santa Claus during half time. Behavior at Eagles games got so bad that officials seven years ago set up an on-site court in Veterans Stadium--with a jail...
...Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., nurses decided to see just how loud it got in recovery rooms where thoracic-surgery patients were trying to sleep. At the 7 a.m. shift change, the noise level shot up as high as 113 db--about as raucous as a jackhammer. The nurses finally hit on a simple solution that can help anyone get a little quiet time: they closed the door...
After receiving a raucous applause, Oke, who began his performance with the words, “I take [rapping] serious,” handed the microphone over to Harvard students Mikal N. Floyd-Pruitt ’06 and Rich W.A. Maye...
After the tournament finished, besotted Beiruters attempted to extend the fun by organizing a Holy War of Flipcup: Jews vs. Christians. The Hebrew contingent lost the match by mere seconds, but was buoyed by a raucous rendition of Hava Nagila. On the other side of the table, the victors celebrated with cries of “Jee-zus! Jee-zus!,” igniting a furor not seen since Wal-Mart’s midnight release party for “The Passion of the Christ?...
Don’t believe everything you read in newspapers. In the aftermath of the Harvard-Yale tailgate, the Boston Herald (among others) sensationalized that the tailgate had been a raucous mess, with arrests, drugs and unsafe drinking aplenty. But these reports were remarkably misleading and sometimes blatantly inaccurate. The various articles all focus on a private party in Allston—unrelated to the tailgates at all. “The police go to the door and there is no respect,” Captain William Evans, Boston Police Department (BPD) commander of the Brighton-Allston district, remarked...