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Word: kinnamon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...blocks of Pine Street in the Negro neighborhood caught fire, apparently by arson. The white volunteer fire company failed to respond to the fire until it had practically burned out, leveling a school, a church, a motel and a tavern. When sobbing Negro women begged Police Chief Brice Kinnamon to send the firemen in, he snapped: "You people ought to have done something before this. You stood by and let a bunch of goddam hoodlums come in here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: The Fire This Time | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

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