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This one happens to be made with fresh peaches (white and yellow-skinned).
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At a time when Publishers Weekly thought it seemly to praise the novel's "Oriental orientation," when my New York City public school still circulated a social studies textbook that described the Chinese as a yellow-skinned and slanty-eyed people, those vibrant, complex portraits of present-day Chinese Americans were revelatory.
Deanna Fei: I Called Amy Tan A Dirty Word--And Then She Friended Me Deanna Fei 2010
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Small, stooped, menacing, yellow-skinned men and women darting like bugs around the egg-shaped bomb.
The Unpublished Writer and His Love Interest (The Painter) David Russo 2010
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At a time when Publishers Weekly thought it seemly to praise the novel's "Oriental orientation," when my New York City public school still circulated a social studies textbook that described the Chinese as a yellow-skinned and slanty-eyed people, those vibrant, complex portraits of present-day Chinese Americans were revelatory.
Deanna Fei: I Called Amy Tan A Dirty Word--And Then She Friended Me 2010
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Yes, because obviously if you're yellow-skinned, you stand with other yellow-skinned people.
Why Are the Negative Minority Always the Loudest Voices? fantasyecho 2008
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Examples of gene expression are all around us, as vivid as yellow-skinned grasshoppers becoming black skinned when exposed to a blackened (burnt) environment, and as invisible as human adult skeletal muscle tissue converting from one fiber type to another in response to exercise training.
The Success Myth David Shenk 2010
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This was her first prolonged exposure to the standard American view of China as a land of dirty, scavenging beggars and sinister, slit-eyed, yellow-skinned villains.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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Examples of gene expression are all around us, as vivid as yellow-skinned grasshoppers becoming black skinned when exposed to a blackened (burnt) environment, and as invisible as human adult skeletal muscle tissue converting from one fiber type to another in response to exercise training.
The Success Myth David Shenk 2010
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This was her first prolonged exposure to the standard American view of China as a land of dirty, scavenging beggars and sinister, slit-eyed, yellow-skinned villains.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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The Atom then becomes a Conan-like figure and hero to a tribe of six-inch tall yellow-skinned humanoid aliens who already dwell in the jungle.
Archive 2009-08-01 Chuck Wells 2009
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