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  • This one happens to be made with fresh peaches (white and yellow-skinned).

    Easy Peach Galette | Baking Bites 2009

  • 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

  • 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    The Unpublished Writer and His Love Interest (The Painter) David Russo 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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