Word: martianize
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...order to forestall panic effects of an Orson Welles-Martian nature, the Rose recordings are carefully introduced and Japanese tamperings with the facts of the news are spotted for listeners by KYA's news staff...
Beginning with an ordinary broadcasting procedure of a New York station, reports of explosions from the planet Mars break into the broadcast. An interview at a Princeton astronomical observatory is followed by a description of a scene nearby where the first Martian cylinder has landed and begins to spread destruction throughout New Jersey. From here the play depicts increasingly alarming incidents of destructive power of the Martians, and builds to a climax with an "eye-witness" destruction of New York City...
...scientists hoped to hand Ransom over to Martian colleagues for experimental purposes. In return, one scientist wanted Martian gold. The other wanted to study the possibilities of man's annexing Mars as a breeding ground for a race of new men. But Philologist Ransom escaped his captors...
Hyoi, the hross, explained the neat divisions of labor in Martian life. The seallike hrossa did the fishing and wrote the poetry. The séroni, pretty much like men except that they were covered with feathers, took care of philosophy and science. The froglike pfifltriggi handled building and sculp ture. The eldila (unfortunately invisible to the sinful eye of hmãn) represented the spirit world and carried out the orders of Oyarsa, God of Mars...
Concurrently the announcement of the three regular terms which were to comprise the next year came out of University Hall and things began to look pretty Martian...