Word: ferreted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...admit it. San Francisco schoolchildren skipped home carrying little white slips of paper urging parents to "get counted" if they had missed the census. New York City's tabloids carried coupons for uncounted citizens to fill in and mail. Cleve land city fathers dispatched building inspectors to ferret out anyone who might have slipped by the federal census takers...