While the governments and commanders got into a tangle of divergent views and orders, the cut-off armies in the north fell back on a slant closer to the coast under increasing pressure from Gen. Walther von Reichenau's advance through Belgium.
Prior stares at the pitch as if it's just bounced his wife on its knee, then gets into a tangle against a short one - but he's still agile enough to swat a quick single into the leg-side.
The day before, Mr. McCain repeated a mistake by referring to Czechoslovakia, a nation that has not existed since 1993, and got into a tangle after an interview with CBS News over whether he was historically correct in saying that the troop escalation began before the Anbar Awakening movement in which Sunnis joined forces with American troops to fight the insurgency in Iraq.
What impresses is their sheer variety: a camp hand spends an ill-judged night in the meat-storage tent and gets into a tangle with a hyena; a Masai employee, disdainful of Sapolsky's sugared ices, decides to invent the cow's-blood ice instead.
Preuss completed an afternoon she will want to forget by getting into a tangle with her own defenders on the edge of the penalty area, allowing Arsenal's leading scorer, Miedema, coolly to retain possession and slip the ball into an unguarded net.
Ruisi seemed supremely unperturbed by having over a million pound's-worth of spruce and maple tucked beneath his chin; but then it is a hallmark of the NYO that it is up for anything, even the ill-co-ordinated puppet at the heart of Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka, whose dissonant signature chord was delivered with the brash confidence of strings getting into a tangle on purpose.
Raikkonen suffered the consequences of that by getting into a tangle with a Caterham at the first corner and retiring with broken front suspension.
"The officials are jealous of their ability to tax, and there is great caution about getting into a tangle with the tax agency," says Stephen Church of Analytica Japan, a consultancy in Tokyo.
Pablo Hernandez makes progress into the Brazil penalty area and Fernandinho, in trying to shepherd the Chile forward out of play, gets into a tangle that leaves him in danger of conceding a penalty.
Roy got into a tangle with the stock market regulator for allegedly raising money by issuing debentures without its approval and was ordered to refund thousands of small investors.
