manna

CIAのTeddyに担ぎ出され、大統領選挙の候補者になったLakeは選挙キャンペーンに飛び回ります。
When Lake finally appeared, and strode purposefully across the stage, shaking vigorously the hands ofcorporate honchos he'd never see again, the laborers went wild. The music was carefully ratcheted up a couple of notches by a sound consultant who was a member of a sound team Lake's people had hired for $24,000 for the event. Money was of little concern.
Balloons fell like manna. Some were popped by workers who'd been asked to pop them, so for a few seconds the hangar sounded like the first wave of a ground attack. Get ready for it. Get ready for war. Lake Before It's Too Late.
上に出てきた "manna" は以前（3/21/2013）取り上げた単語ですが、例によって忘れている単語です。復習します。
・Oxford English Dictionary:
　(In the Bible) the substance miraculously supplied as food to the Israelites in the wilderness (Exod. 16).
An unexpected or gratuitous benefit: the cakes were manna from heaven